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100 Litu
| Issuer | Lietuvos Bankas (Bank of Lithuania) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 100 Litų |
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| Obverse lettering | LIETUVOS BANKAS ŠIMTAS LITŲ SERIJA A 100 LIETUVOS BANKAS VIENAS LITAS TURI 0,150462 GRAMŲ GRYNO AUKSO. KAUNAS, 1922 m. LAPKR. 16 d (Translation: Lithuanian Bank Hundred Litas One Litas contains 0.150462 grams of pure gold. Kaunas, November 16, 1922) |
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| Reverse lettering | LIETUVOS BANKO BANKNOTAS 100 ŠIMTAS LITŲ BANKNOTŲ PADIRBIMAS ĮSTATYMU BAUDŽIAMAS (Translation: Lithuanian Bank Banknote One Hundred Litas Forgery of Banknotes Punished by Law) |
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The 1922 Lithuanian 100 Litų (Pick 20) belongs to the founding currency series of the restored Lithuanian state — but the litas itself didn't actually launch until 1922, replacing the interim ostmark and ost-rubel left over from German wartime occupation. The early Lietuvos Bankas notes were printed abroad, with this series produced by W. Hagelberg in Berlin, a firm that handled a number of young European state commissions in the early interwar period.
Lithuania's rapid currency stabilization in the early 1920s was remarkably successful — the litas was pegged to the dollar at a fixed rate and held it. High-denomination notes from this first series consequently saw relatively limited street circulation and were retired well before the Soviet occupation made the question moot.