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5 Euros Janis Rozentals
| Issuer | Bank of Latvia |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is designed to simulate the reverse side of a framed canvas painting, divided into four distinct fields. The upper left field contains a facsimile signature of Jānis Rozentāls above an enclosed panel bearing the title inscription 'Princese ar pērtiķi' (The Princess and the Monkey), the canvas dimensions '147,5 × 71', and the date 1913; the notation 'audekls, eļļa' (canvas, oil) appears to the right. The lower left field carries the vertical denomination inscription '5 euro', while the lower central and right fields display the circular seal of the Latvijas Nacionālais mākslas muzejs (Latvian National Museum of Art) accompanied by the legend LATVIJAS REPUBLIKA and the issue year 2016. |
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| Mintage | 2016 - Proof - 7,000 |
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Janis Rozentals (1866–1916) was the first professionally trained Latvian painter, educated at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. He died in Helsinki at fifty, just as Latvia was moving toward the independence it would declare two years later. This coin was issued on the centenary of his death.
The 62-gram format places it in Latvia's collector series of oversized silver commemoratives — a program the Bank of Latvia has used consistently since the early 2000s to document national cultural figures otherwise absent from international art histories.