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2 Euros Latvian farming and countryside
| Issuer | Latvijas Banka |
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| Year | 2016 |
| Type | Commemorative circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Staatliche Münze Baden-Württemberg (Karlsruhe Mint, mint mark F) |
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Latvia joined the eurozone in January 2014 after years of fiscal austerity so severe — including a GDP contraction of roughly 25% between 2008 and 2010 — that it became an unlikely poster case for IMF-backed internal devaluation. Commemorative issues like this one, celebrating agrarian heritage, were politically deliberate choices by Latvijas Banka to anchor national identity within a currency Latvia had no hand in designing.
The farming theme connects to Latvia's pre-Soviet rural economy, which collectivization under occupation effectively dismantled after 1940.