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20 Euro Vydūnas
| Issuer | Bank of Lithuania (Lietuvos Bankas) |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Currency | Euro (2015-date) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse presents the armorial Vytis (mounted knight) set against the architectural backdrop of the Queen Louise Bridge at Tilsit, symbolising the cultural and historical connection between Lithuania Major and Lithuania Minor championed by Vydūnas. The national inscription LIETUVA and the issue date 2018 appear in the upper field, while the denomination €20 is positioned in the lower left field. The Lithuanian Mint logo (LMK) is impressed to the right of the central design. The composition is executed in a refined artistic style that integrates heraldic and landscape motifs within the circular field. |
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| Edge | Lettered |
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Vydūnas — the pen name of Wilhelm Storosta — spent decades as the defining cultural voice of Lithuanian Minor, the Prussian-administered region where ethnic Lithuanians had lived under German rule for centuries. When the Nazi regime came to power, his insistence on Lithuanian identity made him a target; he was arrested by the Gestapo in 1934 and held for several months before international pressure secured his release. He continued writing in exile until his death in West Germany in 1953, never returning to a Lithuania that had itself fallen behind the Iron Curtain.