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25 Talonas 'Coupon'
| Issuer | Lithuania |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Protection description | Large squarish diamond with symbol of the republic throughout paper. |
| Variants | P#36a - Without text on lower front P#36b - With text on lower front |
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Introduced in May 1991 while Lithuania was still technically within the Soviet monetary system, the talonas was a rationing coupon pressed into emergency currency use — it had no legal tender status in the conventional sense but was required alongside Soviet rubles to purchase certain goods. The practical effect was a parallel currency operating under rationing logic rather than banking logic.
Spindulys, a Kaunas printing house with roots in the interwar republic, produced the entire talonas series domestically. The watermark is modest but significant: printing a secured national coupon-currency at home, within months of the independence declaration, was itself a political act.