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500 Litu
| Issuer | Lietuvos Bankas (Bank of Lithuania) |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Size | 140 × 70 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | LIETUVOS BANKAS PENKI ŠIMTAI LITŲ V. KUDIRKA 500 LIETUVOS BANKO VALDYBOS PIRMININKAS 2000 (Translation: Lithuanian Bank Five Hundred Litu V. Kudirka Lithuanian Bank Board Chairman 2000) |
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| Reverse lettering | LIETUVOS BANKAS 500 PENKI ŠIMTAI LITŲ (Translation: Lithuanian Bank Five Hundred Litu) |
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The 500 Litu was the highest denomination in circulation during Lithuania's litas period, and the 2000 issue came at a peculiar moment — the country was already deep in the process of aligning its economy toward EU accession, with the litas pegged to the euro at a fixed rate from 2002. A note of this face value had real purchasing weight; this wasn't emergency-issue paper printed to cope with inflation but a functioning high-denomination instrument in a stable monetary environment.
Giesecke & Devrient in Leipzig had handled Lithuanian banknote production across multiple series. The security specification here is relatively lean for the denomination — watermark and thread without more elaborate features that would appear in later European issues of comparable value.