Catalog
10 Litų Pattern Strike
| Issuer | Lietuvos Bankas |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Weight | 18.0 g |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a left-facing bust of Vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania, wearing an ornate crown and fur-trimmed robe with detailed drapery folds rendered in high sculptural relief. The portrait is positioned centrally and occupies the lower two-thirds of the field. The circular legend VYTAUTAS DIDYSIS arcs across the upper portion of the coin, flanked on each side by decorative rosette ornaments. Along the lower arc, the denomination inscription 10 DESIMTS LITU 10 runs from left to right, with the numeral 10 appearing on each side of the lower field, all contained within a beaded border. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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The 1936 Lithuanian 10 Litų pattern was produced during a period when Lietuvos Bankas was actively exploring design revisions for its silver coinage, though the specific political or administrative reasons this particular strike never advanced to circulation remain poorly documented. Pattern issues from interwar Lithuania are genuinely scarce — the country's numismatic output was modest, and institutional records from this period were largely destroyed or dispersed during the Soviet occupation beginning in 1940.