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500 Venti Ventspils
| Issuer | Ventspils Virtual Embassy |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Size | 150 x 75 mm |
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| Reverse description | Crimson and white note dominated by a central vignette of the Livonian Order Castle tower amid foliage and billowing clouds, rendered in fine line engraving over a wave guilloche underprint. The Ventspils script logo appears at upper centre-left, with denomination numerals 500 at upper right and lower left, and VENTI at lower right. The website address is set in the dark header band at top. |
| Reverse lettering | WWW.VISITVENTSPILS.COM 500 VENTI VENTSPILS |
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Ventspils, a port city on Latvia's Baltic coast, spent the 2000s aggressively branding itself as a progressive, tech-forward municipality — unusual enough for a post-Soviet city of 40,000 that it attracted genuine international attention. The "Virtual Embassy" project was part of that civic identity campaign, and the 500 Venti note is its most tangible artifact: a locally issued fantasy denomination in a currency that never had legal tender status and was never meant to.
These were promotional pieces, not scrip. The Venti was tied to Ventspils tourism initiatives, and surviving examples turn up occasionally in collections of Latvian municipal ephemera rather than mainstream notaphily.