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5 Euros 100 years of basketball in Latvia
| Issuer | Latvijas Banka |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#228 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a stylised bird's-eye view of a basketball court, with tactical play-scheme arrows and player-position markings rendered across the field, evoking the strategic geometry of the sport. At the lower centre of the field, two inscriptions appear: the denomination 5 EURO and the stylised date 20:23, presented in the manner of a scoreboard clock to reflect both the year of issue and basketball's game-clock tradition. The composition is dynamic and graphic in character, combining sports iconography with typographic design. |
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Basketball arrived in Latvia in the early 1920s, introduced largely through the influence of American YMCA networks spreading the sport across newly independent European states after World War I. Latvia's national team went on to win the 1935 EuroBasket — a result that still anchors the sport's outsized cultural weight in a country of under two million people.
The gold-plated elements on this issue follow a technique the Latvian mint has used selectively on collector pieces since the 2000s, applied here to distinguish the commemorative function from standard bullion output.