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1½ Euro Eglė - Queen of Serpents
| Issuer | Bank of Lithuania |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a dramatic confrontation between the serpent king and Eglė, the protagonists of the eponymous Lithuanian folk tale, arranged across the full field in a richly detailed composition. Eglė's flowing hair merges allegorically into stylized sea waves rendered alternately in white and red foam, creating a dynamic sense of movement. The sinuous body of the serpent is decorated with a sequence of symbolic pictograms that narrate key episodes of the tale, and the inscription EGLĖ – ŽALČIŲ KARALIENĖ curves within the design, identifying the fairy tale by name. Silhouettes of trees along the lower field allude to Eglė's children, who were transformed into trees in the tale's tragic denouement. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Part of Lithuania's ongoing folklore series, this issue draws on one of the oldest and most deeply rooted narratives in Baltic mythology — the story of Eglė, a mortal woman who marries the king of serpents and is eventually transformed into a spruce tree. The tale predates Christianity in the region and carries linguistic echoes traced by scholars to Proto-Indo-European sources, making it among the oldest recoverable story cycles in European oral tradition.
The 1½ euro denomination itself is a Lithuanian invention, used exclusively for collector issues in this series since 2017.