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20 Venti Ventspils
| Issuer | Ventspils Tourism Information Centre |
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| Year | 2011 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour note with the Ventspils city logo in script at upper left on a plain white panel; the main field carries a guilloche wave underprint over which a central vignette shows a cow in full profile against a scenic harbour landscape. Denomination numerals '20' appear at upper right and lower right, with 'VENTI' in gold at lower left. The lower margin bears the Latvian legend identifying this as a virtual embassy monetary note. |
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| Obverse lettering | VENTSPILS WWW.VISITVENTSPILS.COM 20 VENTI VENTSPILS VIRTUĀLĀS VĒSTNIECĪBAS NAUDAS ZĪME |
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Ventspils, a port city on Latvia's Kurzeme coast, began issuing its own local scrip through the Tourism Information Centre as part of a civic promotion scheme — the "Venti" functioning as a souvenir currency rather than a redemption instrument. These notes circulated nominally within participating local businesses but were never legal tender in any statutory sense. The scheme was one of several Baltic municipal novelty currency projects that appeared in the late 2000s and early 2010s, borrowing the format of genuine banknotes to drive tourism engagement.
Paper composition and local printing keep production costs visible in the stock itself — noticeably lighter than central bank issue.