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| Issuer | Lithuania |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | LIETUVA |
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| Reverse lettering | SPECIMEN 2 |
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Lithuania struck euro-denomination coins years before actually joining the eurozone — a quirk of EU accession preparation that required candidate states to produce specimen sets for approval by European authorities. This 2006 issue predates Lithuania's eventual euro adoption by nearly a decade; the country's planned 2007 switchover was blocked when its inflation rate marginally exceeded the Maastricht Treaty threshold, the only candidate rejected on that basis in that accession wave.