50 Litų Sweet William Catchfly

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.