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10 Litų Baltic studies
| Issuer | Bank of Lithuania |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Currency | New litas (1993-2014) |
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| Obverse lettering | LIETUVA LMK 2014 10 LITŲ |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued to mark the centenary of Lithuanian studies in Baltic linguistics, this small gold piece belongs to a Lithuanian commemorative program that has used fractional gold consistently since the early 2000s to honor academic and cultural milestones. The Baltic language group — comprising Lithuanian and Latvian, with Old Prussian extinct since the early 18th century — has drawn outsized scholarly attention relative to its speaker population precisely because Lithuanian is considered the most archaic living Indo-European language, preserving features lost in Sanskrit and Latin centuries earlier.