Catalog
100 Litu
| Issuer | Lietuvos Bankas (Bank of Lithuania) |
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| Year | 2007 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown and green tones over a multicolor guilloche underprint. Intaglio portrait of historian and writer Simonas Daukantas at right, the Lithuanian Coat of Arms — the mounted knight (Vytis) — at center, with denomination numeral and issuer inscription flanking the design. A vertical holographic security band runs along the far right edge of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | LIETUVOS BANKAS ŠIMTAS LITŲ S. DAUKANTAS LIETUVOS BANKO VALDYBOS PIRMININKAS 2007 (Translation: Lithuanian Bank Hundred Litu Simonas Daukantas Lithuanian Bank Board Chairman 2007) |
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The 2007 issue of this note was part of a broader redesign program Lietuvos Bankas undertook in anticipation of eventual euro adoption — which, in the event, did not come until 2015. The litas had been pegged to the euro at a fixed rate since 2002, so these later high-denomination notes were circulating in a currency that was functionally already a euro proxy, just without the name.
Giesecke & Devrient's Leipzig plant handled the print run, with engraving credited to R. Valantinas — a Lithuanian specialist whose work on the litas series was notably precise by the demanding standards of intaglio currency printing.