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50 Litų Sweet William Catchfly
| Issuer | Bank of Lithuania (Lietuvos Bankas) |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Value | 50 Litų (50 LTL) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 2009 LMK - Proof - 10,000 |
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Issued as part of Lithuania's long-running native flora series, this coin commemorates Lychnis viscaria — the Sweet William Catchfly — a wildflower that has largely vanished from Lithuanian meadows due to agricultural intensification and habitat loss. The series was a deliberate conservation statement by Lietuvos Bankas, pairing numismatic circulation with ecological awareness at a time when EU accession was reshaping Lithuanian land use policy at speed.