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1½ Euros ANBO aircraft
| Issuer | Bank of Lithuania |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Currency | Euro (2015-date) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a bust-length portrait of Lithuanian aviation pioneer Antanas Gustaitis in the upper right, depicted wearing a pilot's leather helmet and goggles, rendered in high relief against a stippled background. To the lower left, a detailed relief depiction of the ANBO IV biplane is shown on the ground with radiating lines suggesting movement. The inscription ANBO LĖKTUVAMS – 100 METŲ (100 years of ANBO aircraft) is positioned in the left field in bold lettering. The name ANTANAS GUSTAITIS curves along the right rim, and the aircraft designation ANBO IV appears along the lower right rim. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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The ANBO series of aircraft were designed by Antanas Gustaitis, a Lithuanian military engineer and pilot who built the country's first domestically produced aircraft program almost entirely through institutional stubbornness — working against chronic underfunding and political indifference throughout the 1930s. The ANBO-41, among the most capable of the line, was still in service when the Soviet occupation of June 1940 rendered the Lithuanian Air Force instantly obsolete. Most of the aircraft were absorbed or scrapped within months.
Lithuania's 1.5 euro collector series has become a vehicle for recovering precisely this kind of interwar technical achievement from obscurity.