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| Issuer | Bank of Lithuania |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Thickness | 2.2 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued to mark the 2015 UNESCO designation of Lithuanian as a protected intangible cultural heritage, this coin commemorates a language considered by historical linguists to be the most archaic living Indo-European tongue — retaining features of Proto-Indo-European that Sanskrit and Latin lost millennia ago. The choice to put language itself on a circulation coin was deliberate political signaling, arriving just as Lithuania completed its transition to the euro and sought to assert cultural identity through the new coinage.