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25 Talonas 'Coupon'
| Issuer | Lithuania |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Value | 25 Talonas |
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| Obverse description | Purplish gray on blue and orange guilloche underprint. A pine tree branch vignette occupies the center of the note, with the numeral value flanking it; the Lithuanian Coat of Arms appears at right. Some issues carry an anti-counterfeiting clause printed at the bottom margin. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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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.