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5 Euro Building the Unbuilt
| Issuer | Latvijas Banka (Bank of Latvia) |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Value | 5 Euros 5 EUR = RSD 588 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a further selection of architectural sketches from Marta Staņa's unrealised projects, presented in a coloured blue-tinted print. At centre, the design for a proposed viewing tower atop Gaiziņkalns is prominently displayed against the blue background, with staircase and column fragments from the unbuilt Budapest National Theatre project arranged in the lower right field. An abstract wooden sculptural form occupies the left field. The date 2024 appears in the upper right, while the designer's name MARTA STAŅA is inscribed along the lower left margin. |
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| Edge | Plain © Latvijas Banka |
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This piece belongs to Latvia's ongoing architectural series, which has used numismatics as a vehicle for preserving unexecuted designs — buildings commissioned, drawn, and then abandoned due to war, occupation, or economic collapse. The Soviet annexation of 1940 cut short an entire generation of interwar Latvian modernism, leaving a body of architectural work that existed only on paper.
KM#234 has thin secondary literature so far. Worth watching for die varieties as collector documentation matures.