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10 Litu Darius and Girėnas
| Issuer | Bank of Lithuania |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Engraver(s) | Petras Garška |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 LITŲ LMK LIETUVA |
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| Edge | Lettered |
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This coin commemorates Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas, the Lithuanian-American aviators who in July 1933 flew their monoplane Lituanica from New York toward Kaunas — covering over 6,400 kilometers before crashing in a forest near Pszczelnik, Germany, just 650 kilometers short of their destination. The cause of the crash was never conclusively established. Both men died instantly.
Issued sixty years after the flight, this was among the first commemorative coins struck after Lithuania restored its independent monetary system in 1993, having reintroduced the litas the previous year following the collapse of Soviet currency arrangements.