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50 Litų Vincas Kudirka
| Issuer | Bank of Lithuania |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse lettering | VINCAS KUDIRKA 1858-1899 1999 GK |
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| Mintage | 1999 LMK - Proof - Mintage 4,000 pcs - 1,835 pcs distributed - 1,835 |
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Vincas Kudirka wrote the lyrics to what became the Lithuanian national anthem, "Tautiška giesmė," in 1898 — exactly one century before this coin's issue date. The timing was deliberate. Lithuania marked the centenary with a series of cultural commemoratives, and Kudirka, who died of tuberculosis in 1899 at 37, had spent much of his short life publishing the banned Lithuanian-language journal *Varpas* under Russian imperial censorship.
The .925 silver specification places this squarely in Lithuania's proof commemorative program of the late 1990s, a period when the newly re-independent central bank was aggressively building a national numismatic identity.