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2 Litaurai
| Issuer | Lietuvos Banko Šiaulių Skyrius (Šiauliai Branch of the Bank of Lithuania) |
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| Year | 1991 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Green and yellow guilloche underprint with the Lithuanian coat of arms (Vytis) as a central vignette watermark. The denomination DU LITAURU in large letterpress at top centre, numeral 2 at left and right margins. Cursive script inscriptions, a serial number with asterisk separator, and two manuscript signatures below the bank manager title. |
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| Reverse description | Left half carries a vignette of two boxers in combat set within a circular guilloche field against a wave-pattern underprint. To the right, redemption text in cursive script above a manuscript signature, with the Olympic rings and the Lithuanian National Olympic Committee logo printed in the lower right corner. Denomination DU LITAURU in letterpress along the bottom edge. |
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The Šiauliai Branch notes of 1991 are among the most regionally specific emergency issues in modern European monetary history. When Lithuania declared independence in March 1990, the Soviet ruble remained in circulation while negotiations over a national currency dragged on. Individual regional branches of the Bank of Lithuania were authorized to issue their own provisional talonai — coupons intended to ration access to goods rather than function as fully convertible currency.
The Šiauliai series is rarer than the Vilnius centrally-issued equivalents, as branch distribution was geographically limited from the outset.