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100 Litu
| Issuer | Lietuvos Bankas (Bank of Lithuania) |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue, green, and purple, the obverse presents an intaglio portrait of Vytautas the Great at right within an ornate guilloche frame, with the Lithuanian Coat of Arms (Vytis) at left. The denomination and issuer text are set against a fine guilloche underprint, with the gold-parity declaration inscribed in full. Serial number and series letter appear in the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | LIETUVOS BANKO BANKNOTAS 100 ŠIMTAS LITŲ BANKNOTŲ PADIRBIMAS ĮSTATYMU BAUDŽIAMAS (Translation: Lithuanian Bank Banknote One Hundred Litas Forgery of Banknotes Punished by Law) |
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The 1922 Lithuanian 100 Litų (Pick 20) belongs to the founding currency series of the restored Lithuanian state — but the litas itself didn't actually launch until 1922, replacing the interim ostmark and ost-rubel left over from German wartime occupation. The early Lietuvos Bankas notes were printed abroad, with this series produced by W. Hagelberg in Berlin, a firm that handled a number of young European state commissions in the early interwar period.
Lithuania's rapid currency stabilization in the early 1920s was remarkably successful — the litas was pegged to the dollar at a fixed rate and held it. High-denomination notes from this first series consequently saw relatively limited street circulation and were retired well before the Soviet occupation made the question moot.