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1000 Litu
| Issuer | Lietuvos Bankas (Bank of Lithuania) |
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| Year | 1924 |
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| Size | 204 x 120 mm |
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| Reverse description | Dark blue intaglio print over a warm beige guilloche underprint, with a central vignette of two allegorical figures in traditional Lithuanian folk attire — a woman and a man seated back to back and holding agricultural and craft implements — surmounted by a large denominational medallion at top center, the whole framed by elaborate lace-like guilloche borders with corner numerals reading 1000. |
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| Protection description | Watermark visible in the left blank panel on the obverse and the right blank panel on the reverse |
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Lithuania's 1924 1000 Litu was the highest denomination issued in the first series of litas notes, introduced following the currency reform of October 1922 that replaced the deeply inflated ostmark and auksinas with the new litas — pegged at a rate designed to stabilize the young republic's finances after years of German occupation and post-war chaos. Bradbury Wilkinson, then among the most respected security printers in the world, handled the production from their New Malden works in Surrey.
At this denomination, surviving examples in any condition are uncommon. The note saw limited everyday use by design — high-value paper in a predominantly agrarian economy moves slowly and rarely wears out in normal trade.