Catalog
20 Centų
| Issuer | Lietuvos Bankas (Bank of Lithuania) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 20 Centų (0.20) |
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| Obverse lettering | LIETUVOS BANKAS DVIDEŠIMTIS 20 CENTŲ KAUNAS 1922 m. LAPKR 16 d. LIETUVOS BANKAS SERIJA Č (Translation: Lithuanian Bank / Twenty / 20 Cents / Kaunas, November 16, 1922 / Lithuanian Bank / Series Č) |
| Reverse description | Dark olive-green on a light tan guilloche underprint, enclosed within a fine geometric border. To the left, a large circular lathe-work medallion surrounds the numeral 20. To the right, an ornate scrolled numeral 20 is set above a banner cartouche bearing the denomination in text. An anti-counterfeiting warning is inscribed along the lower margin. |
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Lithuania's 1922 small-denomination issues were produced during the bank's first full year of operation following the litas system's establishment. The 20 Centų belongs to the founding series, when the newly independent state was still contracting out all its printing work to German firms — W. Hagelberg in Berlin handled the lithography for these lower values, a cheaper process than intaglio and appropriate for denominations unlikely to circulate at high value for long.
Lithographed notes from this period are noticeably more vulnerable to wear than engraved contemporaries, and survivors in clean condition are harder to locate than the catalogue frequency suggests.