Lithuania's centų coinage of this period was produced largely at the UAB Lietuvos monetų kalykla mint in Vilnius, which had been established specifically to reduce the country's dependence on foreign minting contracts following the restoration of independence in 1990. The long production run — nearly two decades without a design change — reflects the litas's unusual monetary stability for a post-Soviet transition economy.
Lithuania's centų coinage of this period was produced largely at the UAB Lietuvos monetų kalykla mint in Vilnius, which had been established specifically to reduce the country's dependence on foreign minting contracts following the restoration of independence in 1990. The long production run — nearly two decades without a design change — reflects the litas's unusual monetary stability for a post-Soviet transition economy.