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50 Litų 10th Anniversary of the Baltic Way
| Issuer | Bank of Lithuania |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| In circulation to | 1 January 2015 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | LIETUVA 19 99 50 LITŲ |
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The Baltic Way — August 23, 1989 — was a human chain stretching roughly 675 kilometers through Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, organized to mark the 50th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and demand independence from Soviet rule. Approximately two million people joined hands across all three republics simultaneously. Lithuania issued this commemorative a decade later, by which point the country had already secured NATO membership candidacy and was deep into EU accession negotiations — a political distance from 1989 that the coin's timing quietly underscores.