5 Litai

Emittente	Lietuvos Bankas (Bank of Lithuania)
Anno	1922
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Forma	Rectangular
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Descrizione del dritto	Purple and blue bicolour note with a central vignette of a farmer in the act of sowing, framed by guilloche borders; the denomination letters S and C appear at upper left and right respectively. A black serial number is printed at lower center beneath the main vignette. Inscriptions detail the gold content of one litas and the issuing authority, dated Kaunas, 16 November 1922.
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Legenda del rovescio	LIETUVOS BANKO BANKNOTAS PENKI LITAI BANKNOTŲ PADIRBIMAS ISTATYMU BAUDZIAMAS (Translation: Lithuanian Bank Banknote Five Litai Forgery of Banknotes Punished by Law)
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Commenti	Lithuania's first independent central bank opened in 1922, and this 5 Litai note belongs to the inaugural series issued by Lietuvos Bankas — a deliberate break from the transitional Ostmark and Auksinas issues that had circulated since the German occupation. The litas itself was introduced that same year at a rate pegged to stabilize a post-war economy still absorbing the consequences of occupation, revolution, and border conflict with Poland over the Vilnius region. The printer, A. Haase of Prague, was a well-established central European security printer with roots going back to the late eighteenth century. Contracting to a Czechoslovak firm rather than a Western European one was a practical and political choice for a young Baltic state navigating its relationships in the early 1920s.