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Maisto talonai, Vasaris 1993
| Issuer | Republic of Lithuania |
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| Year | 1993 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Lithuanian food ration coupon valid for February 1993, printed in purple, pink, and blue. The face bears denomination numerals (1 through 4), the month inscription VASARIS, and the year 1993m within a simple geometric frame with guilloche underprint. The word TALONAS appears as the principal legend. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse consists of repeated panel units each bearing the inscription LIETUVOS RESPUBLIKA above a vignette of the Vytis — an armored knight on horseback — set within a guilloche patterned ground. A serial number is printed in black. |
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Lithuania's 1993 food ration coupons — "maisto talonai" — were a direct consequence of the supply disruptions that followed the Soviet collapse and the early transition to a market economy. They were not currency in the strict sense but circulated alongside banknotes as a state-controlled rationing instrument, limiting purchases of staple goods during a period when shelves were genuinely bare and price liberalization had outpaced supply stabilization.
Spindulys AB in Kaunas had a long history of printing sensitive documents for Lithuanian state institutions going back to the interwar republic. Their involvement here was practical — domestic production avoided hard currency printing contracts abroad at a moment when Lithuania had very little of either.