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100 Venti Ventspils
| Issuer | Ventspils Virtual Embassy |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Printed in violet-blue on a wave guilloche underprint; left vignette shows the Ventspils castle with stylised script logo and sea waves. Centre carries a tall lighthouse tower set against a dark treeline. Right panel contains a faint watermark-style sailing ship vignette within a guilloche panel. Denomination '100' and 'VENTI' appear at lower corners. |
| Reverse lettering | WWW.VISITVENTSPILS.COM 100 VENTI VENTSPILS |
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Ventspils, a port city on Latvia's western coast, launched its "Virtual Embassy" as a soft-power tourism initiative in the mid-2000s — a campaign built around the city's clean streets, blue-flag beaches, and deliberate branding as a counterpoint to Riga. The 100 Venti note was part of that promotional apparatus, functioning as souvenir currency rather than any instrument of exchange. "Venti" as a unit has no monetary backing or convertibility; the denomination is purely nominal.
Latvia was still using the Lats in 2011, three years before euro adoption. This note was never legal tender under any authority.