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2 Euros Lithuania Minor
| Issuer | Lithuanian Mint (Lietuvos Monetų Kalykla) |
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| Year | 2025 |
| Type | Commemorative circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The common European reverse features a geographical map of Western Europe extending across both the inner disc and the outer ring on the right side of the coin. The denomination "2 EURO" is superimposed over the map, with the numeral "2" positioned in the open field representing the eastern Atlantic Ocean. Six vertical stripes traverse the inner core, visually linking the upper and lower groups of six stars. Twelve stars of the European Union flag are arranged along the right portion of the outer ring, six above and six below the map. The mint mark "LL" appears in the field. |
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Lithuania Minor — known in Lithuanian as Mažoji Lietuva — refers to the historical region of northeastern Prussia where a substantial Lithuanian-speaking population lived under German administration for centuries, largely cut off from the Lithuanian state. The 1923 Klaipėda Revolt, a French-administered territory seized by Lithuanian paramilitary forces in a calculated gamble that the great powers would accept a fait accompli, brought the region's capital briefly into Lithuanian hands. It was lost again in 1939 when Hitler personally demanded its return, arriving by warship to accept the territory.
Most of the region's Lithuanian-speaking population was expelled or killed during World War II and never returned. Today it falls almost entirely within the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia.