2 Euros Lithuanian Language

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.