Lithuania joined the eurozone on January 1, 2015, making it the last of the three Baltic states to adopt the euro. This 2016 issue was released as part of a broader Baltic commemorative program — a joint initiative among Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in which each country issued a coin on the shared theme of Baltic culture, coordinated across all three mints for the same year.
The program was partly a political statement, emphasizing a unified Baltic identity less than thirty years after Soviet occupation ended.
Lithuania joined the eurozone on January 1, 2015, making it the last of the three Baltic states to adopt the euro. This 2016 issue was released as part of a broader Baltic commemorative program — a joint initiative among Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in which each country issued a coin on the shared theme of Baltic culture, coordinated across all three mints for the same year.
The program was partly a political statement, emphasizing a unified Baltic identity less than thirty years after Soviet occupation ended.