20 Litu

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.