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| Issuer | Lietuvos Bankas (Bank of Lithuania) |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Reference(s) | P#65 |
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| Reverse description | Blue intaglio over a multicolor guilloche underprint, with a vignette of the transatlantic monoplane Lituanica in flight above clouds occupying the central field. The Lithuanian Coat of Arms (Vytis) appears at upper right, and a faint cartographic underprint of the North Atlantic flight route spanning North America and Europe is rendered in the background. |
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| Protection description | Vytis knight on horseback (coat of arms), visible when held to light; vertical holographic security strip at center left of obverse |
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Lithuania's 10 Litas note of 2001 belongs to the second litas series, introduced after the country re-established its currency following independence in 1990. The litas itself had a complicated return — it was reintroduced in 1993, initially pegged to the US dollar, then switched to a currency board arrangement with the euro in 2002, which made this particular issue part of a relatively brief window before that realignment took hold.
Orell Füssli has printed Lithuanian banknotes since the series launched in the early 1990s, giving the entire litas family a consistent production pedigree from one of Europe's older security printers.