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5 Venti Ventspils
| Issuer | Ventspils Virtual Embassy |
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| Year | 2011 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse lettering | VENTSPILS WWW.VISITVENTSPILS.COM 5 VENTI VENTSPILS VIRTUĀLĀS VĒSTNIECĪBAS NAUDAS ZĪME |
| Reverse description | Central vignette shows a large cargo vessel accompanied by a tugboat in the foreground, with a stylised house vignette and cloud formation at upper left. The cursive Ventspils city logo overlays the upper centre against a fine guilloche wave underprint. Denomination numerals 5 appear at upper right and lower left, with VENTI at lower right. |
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The Ventspils Virtual Embassy is a civic promotion project run by the city of Ventspils, Latvia — a port municipality that has aggressively marketed itself internationally since the early 2000s as a model of post-Soviet municipal reform. This note is a souvenir or novelty issue, not legal tender, and carries no redemption value. It belongs to a broader tradition of Latvian local fantasy currency produced for tourism and municipal branding purposes.
The denomination "Venti" is a invented unit specific to this promotional series, playing on the city's own name.