Issued as part of Moldova's ongoing series documenting traditional crafts, this piece commemorates cooperage — barrel-making — a trade with deep roots in the wine-producing regions of the country. Moldova's winemaking history stretches back millennia, and coopers supplied an essential industry that survived Soviet collectivization largely intact, if structurally transformed.
KM#45 was struck at the Lithuanian Mint in Vilnius, which has produced a significant portion of Moldova's commemorative silver output since the National Bank began issuing collector coins in the 1990s.
Issued as part of Moldova's ongoing series documenting traditional crafts, this piece commemorates cooperage — barrel-making — a trade with deep roots in the wine-producing regions of the country. Moldova's winemaking history stretches back millennia, and coopers supplied an essential industry that survived Soviet collectivization largely intact, if structurally transformed.
KM#45 was struck at the Lithuanian Mint in Vilnius, which has produced a significant portion of Moldova's commemorative silver output since the National Bank began issuing collector coins in the 1990s.