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25 Talonas 'Coupon'

Emittent Lithuania
Jahr 1991
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Druckerei Spindulys AB, Kaunas, Lithuania (1928-2009)
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Vorderseitenlegende LIETUVOS RESPUBLIKA TALONAS 25 1991 VERTYBINIS POPIERIUS. UŽ JO PADIRBINĖJIMĄ BAUDŽIAMA PAGAL ĮSTATYMĄ.
(Translation: Republic of Lithuania Talonas 25 1991 Security. Counterfeit is punished according to the Law.)
Rückseitenbeschreibung Purplish gray on red-brown guilloche underprint. A detailed intaglio vignette of a Eurasian lynx in full-body profile occupies the central field, rendered with fine line engraving against a dense wave-pattern underprint. The denomination numeral '25' appears in dark ink at lower left and lower right corners.
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Introduced in May 1991 while Lithuania was still technically within the Soviet monetary system, the talonas was a rationing coupon pressed into emergency currency use — it had no legal tender status in the conventional sense but was required alongside Soviet rubles to purchase certain goods. The practical effect was a parallel currency operating under rationing logic rather than banking logic.

Spindulys, a Kaunas printing house with roots in the interwar republic, produced the entire talonas series domestically. The watermark is modest but significant: printing a secured national coupon-currency at home, within months of the independence declaration, was itself a political act.