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50 Litu
| Issuer | Lietuvos Bankas |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Dark green and brown note with a portrait vignette of Grand Duke Gediminas at right, framed by intricate guilloche work. The city arms of Kaunas, Vilnius, and Klaipėda appear at left, accompanied by the denomination and issue text. The overall design reflects early Lithuanian national symbolism rendered in a classical intaglio style. |
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| Reverse description | Red-brown note with a central vignette of the Cathedral of Vilnius and its detached belfry, framed within an ornate arched gate surmounted by the Columns of Gediminas arms. Elaborate folk-art inspired decorative columns and rosette guilloche patterns fill the lateral margins, with the denomination "50 LITŲ" appearing in bold numerals at lower left and right. An anti-counterfeiting warning inscription appears in a panel at the base of the central vignette. |
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The 1922 Lithuanian 50 Litu belongs to the foundational series issued following Lithuania's monetary reform of that year, which replaced the transitional talonas with the litas at a fixed rate of 100 talonai to 1 litas. The new currency was a deliberate assertion of economic independence, pegged to gold and designed to stabilize a young state that had been operating under occupation-era monetary chaos since 1915.
Pick 19 is among the scarcer denominations from this first litas series. The printing arrangements for early Lithuanian state notes involved foreign contractors, as the country had no domestic security printing capability at the time.