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2 Euros
| Issuer | Lithuanian Mint (Lietuvos Monetų Kalykla) |
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| Year | 2015-2024 |
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| Value | 2 Euros |
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| Obverse description | The centre field displays the crowned Vytis (Knight on horseback), the national coat of arms of Lithuania, rendered in fine relief against a lined background. The date of issue appears to the right of the arms, while the country name LIETUVA is inscribed along the lower portion of the inner disc. The mint mark LMK of the Lithuanian Mint at Vilnius appears alongside the date. The outer ring, common to all euro coinage, bears the twelve stars of the European Union arranged in a continuous circle. |
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| Obverse lettering | 2015 LMK LIETUVA (Translation: 2015 LMK Lithuania) |
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Lithuania joined the eurozone on 1 January 2015, making it the last of the three Baltic states to adopt the common currency — Estonia had converted in 2011, Latvia in 2014. The Lithuanian Mint, which had been producing the litas since 1993, pivoted immediately to euro production, with these circulation strikes entering pockets and tills on the first day of the new year.
The litas itself had been pegged to the euro at a fixed rate of 3.4528 since 2002, so the switchover carried no monetary shock — it was largely administrative.