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100 Litu
| Issuer | Lietuvos Bankas |
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| Year | 1928 |
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| Currency | Old litas (1922-1941) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark purple on guilloche underprint, the obverse bears a seated allegorical female figure in traditional Lithuanian folk costume at left, holding a basket, with agricultural implements in the background vignette and a putto with the caduceus of Mercury at lower right. The denomination numeral '100' appears at upper right within an ornamental frame, with 'LIETUVOS BANKAS' inscribed across the top. A central panel carries the gold-standard declaration and the issue date of 31 March 1928. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark purple and green, the reverse centres on a finely engraved intaglio vignette of the Lietuvos Bankas headquarters building in Kaunas, set within an ornate cartouche and flanked by geometric guilloche panels with folk-art patterning. The denomination '100' is repeated in each corner, with the bank title inscribed in a panel above the building and the anti-counterfeiting warning in a panel below. |
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Lithuania's 1928 100 Litu was among the first major-denomination notes issued under the litas monetary system, established in 1922 to replace the highly inflated ostmark and transitional talonas. Bradbury Wilkinson, a firm with deep experience printing currency for newly independent states across interwar Europe, produced the note in London to a standard the young Lietuvos Bankas could not yet achieve domestically.
The litas held remarkable stability throughout the late 1920s, pegged to gold, which gave notes of this denomination genuine purchasing power. That stability would not survive the decade that followed.