20 Centų

Lithuania's 1922 small-denomination issues were produced during the bank's first full year of operation following the litas system's establishment. The 20 Centų belongs to the founding series, when the newly independent state was still contracting out all its printing work to German firms — W. Hagelberg in Berlin handled the lithography for these lower values, a cheaper process than intaglio and appropriate for denominations unlikely to circulate at high value for long.

Lithographed notes from this period are noticeably more vulnerable to wear than engraved contemporaries, and survivors in clean condition are harder to locate than the catalogue frequency suggests.