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50 Venti Ventspils
| Issuer | Ventspils Tourism Information Centre |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | VENTSPILS WWW.VISITVENTSPILS.COM 50 VENTI VENTSPILS VIRTUĀLĀS VĒSTNIECĪBAS NAUDAS ZĪME |
| Reverse description | Pink-toned reverse centred on a vignette of a narrow-gauge steam locomotive passing a period station building amid trees and clouds, with the script 'Ventspils' lettering overlaid across the scene. Denomination '50' appears at upper right within a guilloche panel, with 'VENTI' at lower right. A watermark-style cow head vignette is visible at right. |
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Ventspils, a port city on Latvia's Kurzeme coast, introduced its own local currency in 2011 as a municipal tourism promotion scheme — one of several such instruments that appeared across European cities in the early 2010s, borrowing loosely from the complementary currency movement. The "Venti" was accepted by participating local merchants and designed explicitly to keep tourist spending within the city rather than dispersing it regionally. It was never legal tender in any formal sense.
The issuing authority is the tourism information centre, not a bank or municipality, which places this firmly in souvenir/scrip territory. Redeemable only within the scheme's network of registered businesses.