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2 Euro Defence
| Issuer | Bank of Lithuania (Lietuvos Bankas) |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | The national side depicts a stylised cartographic outline of Lithuania, its state borders encircled by a spine barrier rendered in the form of a hedgehog's quills, symbolising holistic whole-of-society defence and the resilience of free societies against external threats. The motif presents Lithuania metaphorically as a hedgehog in a defensive posture. The legend LIETUVA is inscribed across the centre of the inner core, accompanied by the year of issue 2025 and the Lithuanian Mint mark LMK. The outer ring carries the twelve stars of the European Union flag in relief. |
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| Edge | Lettered: FREEDOM UNITY PROSPERITY (reeded with inscription) |
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Lithuania has spent heavily on NATO commitments since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and this issue arrives as the country pushes its defence budget well above the NATO 2% GDP threshold — reaching approximately 3% by 2025. The coin was authorized as part of a broader Baltic push to signal defence solidarity through official coinage, a move with clear political messaging directed as much at allies as adversaries.
Lithuania reintroduced conscription in 2015, the first Baltic state to do so after Russia's annexation of Crimea.