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50 Litų 150th anniversary of the National Museum of Lithuania
| Issuer | Bank of Lithuania |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Value | 50 Litų (50 LTL) |
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| Obverse lettering | LIETUVA LMK 2005 50 LITŲ (Translation: Lithuania LMK 2005 50 litas) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Lithuanian National Museum traces its institutional origins to 1855, when the Museum of Antiquities was established in Vilnius under the Imperial Russian administration — an act of quiet cultural preservation at a time when Lithuanian language publishing was subject to severe censorship. The 150th anniversary this coin marks falls during Lithuania's first decade of renewed independence, lending the occasion a pointed historical weight that the museum's founders under tsarist rule could not have anticipated.