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50 Litų Christening of Samogitia
| Issuer | Bank of Lithuania |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Value | 50 Litų (50 LTL) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | ŽEMAITIJOS KRIKŠTAS 600 (Translation: Christening of Samogitia 600) |
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The Christianization of Samogitia was the last pagan conversion in Europe, completed only in 1413 — nearly a millennium after most of the continent had accepted Christianity. The region had resisted repeated crusading campaigns by the Teutonic Knights for over two centuries, and its formal baptism came not through military conquest but as a political settlement following the Battle of Grunwald in 1410, which effectively broke Teutonic power in the region.
Lithuania issued this coin on the 600th anniversary of that event. Samogitia's diocese, established at Medininkai, was among the last Catholic bishoprics founded in medieval Europe.