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.
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.