5 Euros Janis Rozentals

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.