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10 Latu Icebreaker Krisjanis Valdemars
| Issuer | Bank of Latvia |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Value | 10 Latu (10 LVL) |
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| Obverse description | The full coat of arms of the Republic of Latvia occupies the central field, rendered in fine detail. Flanking semicircular legends read LATVIJAS above and REPUBLIKA below the central device, forming a complete circular inscription around the arms. The date 1998 is inscribed in the lower portion of the field, beneath the coat of arms. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Krišjānis Valdemārs was the 19th-century Latvian National Awakening figure who almost single-handedly built a Latvian seafaring tradition — arguing, against considerable resistance from Baltic German landowners, that ethnic Latvians could and should work as sailors and ship captains rather than serfs. He lobbied St. Petersburg for decades to establish Latvian navigation schools, the first opening in Ainaži in 1864.
The icebreaker connection is direct: Valdemārs championed Arctic and northern sea routes as economic lifelines for a landlocked peasantry. The Ainaži school he founded trained generations of officers who served on vessels exactly like the one commemorated here.