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20 Litu
| Issuer | Lietuvos Bankas (Bank of Lithuania) |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Value | 20 Litu (20 LTL) |
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| Obverse lettering | LIETUVOS BANKAS 2001 20 LIETUVOS BANKO VALDYBOS PIRMININKAS MAIRONIS DVIDEŠIMT LITŲ (Translation: Bank of Lithuania 2001 20 Chairman of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania Maironis Twenty Litu) |
| Reverse description | The central vignette presents Juozas Zikaras's sculpture "Laisvė" (Freedom), rendered as an allegorical female figure in profile. The Lithuanian National Coat of Arms (Vytis) is placed to the right of the composition, with the written denomination inscription positioned in the lower field against a fine guilloche underprint. |
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The 20 Litas note of the 2001 series belongs to the third and final litas currency family, introduced after Lithuania re-established the litas in 1993 following the collapse of the Soviet ruble zone. Orell Füssli in Zurich printed the series — a Swiss firm with a long record of producing currency for smaller European states that lacked domestic high-security printing facilities.
Lithuania pegged the litas to the US dollar in 1994, then switched the peg to the euro in 2002 — the year after this note's issue date. The denomination was demonetized when Lithuania adopted the euro on 1 January 2015.