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20 Litu
| Issuer | Lietuvos Bankas |
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| Year | 1993 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | LIETUVOS BANKAS 1993 20 Maironis FINANSŲ MINISTRAS LIETUVOS BANKO VALDYBOS PIRMININKAS DVIDEŠIMT LITŲ (Translation: Lithuanian Bank 1993 Maironis Finance Minister Chairman of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania Twenty Litu) |
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| Protection description | Coat of Arms (Vytis) watermark |
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Lithuania reintroduced the litas in June 1993 after a brief experiment with the talonas, the transitional coupon currency that had served as a buffer following independence. This note belongs to the first litas series printed by De La Rue for Lietuvos Bankas — a logical choice given the bank's need for rapid, high-quality production before domestic infrastructure could support it. The relationship between newly independent Baltic states and established British security printers during the early 1990s was almost a matter of course; De La Rue produced notes for all three countries in that period.
Pick 57 carries only a watermark as its listed security feature, which is relatively sparse by the standards De La Rue typically applied. Whether this reflects a deliberate cost decision or a transitional specification is not firmly documented.