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10 Latu
| Issuer | Latvijas Valsts Kase (Latvia State Treasury) |
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| Year | 1925 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Red-brown and purple on light background. The central vignette carries a caduceus flanked by the large numeral '10' in guilloche cartouches to the left and an oval text panel to the right bearing an anti-counterfeiting warning in Latvian. The legend 'LATVIJAS VALSTS KASES ZĪME' arches across the top in bold letterpress, with 'DESMIT LATU' in large display type below; two manuscript signatures appear above the date '1925' at foot, with serial numbers printed in the upper corners. Five distinct signature varieties are recorded for this type. |
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| Obverse lettering | LATVIJAS VALSTS KASES ZĪME DESMIT LATU 10 LATU 1925 (Translation: Banknote of Latvia State Treasury Ten Lats 1925) |
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Latvia's interwar Treasury notes were produced under tight fiscal constraints following the lats' stabilization in 1922, and the 10 Latu went through an unusually long printing life — the number of signature combinations on this single type reflects successive ministerial changes across more than a decade of continuous issue from a single base design. Bradbury, Wilkinson's engraved work held up well enough that no redesign was ever commissioned.
Series progression from A through U, with overlapping signature pairs at the transition points, occasionally creates attribution confusion. The Skujenieks pairing is the most historically notable — Marģers Skujenieks was a prominent statistician and minister whose career ended with Soviet occupation in 1940.