Lithuania, fully known as the Republic of Lithuania, has its capital in Vilnius. Lithuania is located in east-central Europe, along with Latvia and Estonia, and is known as the "Baltic States".
Flag of Lithuania
This country the size of a bean grain, everyone should hear about it from time to time recently, involving current political news, here I will not make more evaluations.
Lithuania was once one of the republics of the Soviet Union. On 11 March 1990, Lithuania was the first to declare independence from the Soviet Union, but it was not until 6 September 1991 that Lithuania's independence was recognized by the Soviet side.
1 Talonna banknote in 1991
After lithuania's independence, the first set of post-independence banknotes was issued on 5 August 1991, named Talona (Lithuanian: talonas), in 10 denominations of 0.1, 0.2, 0.5, 1, 3, 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100.
1991 3 Talonga banknotes
It is said that in the Soviet era, the number "3" was regarded as a symbol of perfection, so the Soviet banknotes had many coupons with a face value of 3, and the first set of paper money after Lithuania's independence had a face value of 3, and it is clear that its country has not yet completely separated from the influence of the Soviet Union.
Tauna was a temporary transitional currency used in place of the Soviet rubles in circulation in Lithuania at the time, with a 1:1 exchange ratio between rubles and Talonna.
In 1992, Lithuania issued a new version of the Talonna banknotes, which are available in six denominations: 10, 50, 100, 200 and 500 talonna.
1 1 Talonna banknote in 1992
1992 10 Talonna banknotes
Compared with the previous version of the near-square ticket width, the size of this set of Taronga banknotes has been reduced, and the width of the ticket width has become narrower.
In early 1993, Lithuania issued two banknotes called "Talonu" in denominations of 200 and 500 Talonnu.
1993 200 Talonnu banknotes
1993 500 Tarongu banknotes
Of these, the 500 Tarongu banknotes were declared invalid 6 weeks after their issuance. What is the origin of the appearance of the "Tarongnu" banknote, at present, I have not found reliable information, which will be added later.
On June 25, 1993, Lithuania introduced the official currency litas, with auxiliary coins being cents, 1 litas = 100 cents. The exchange ratio between Lit and Taruna is 1:100.
The first edition of the 10-litre banknote
In fact, lit notes have been printed as early as 1991, limited to the complex social state at that time, in 1993 was officially issued, this set of banknotes has a total of 10, 20, 50, 100, 500, 1000 litas 6 denominations.
The starting denomination of this set of banknotes is 10 litas, the value of the coins is larger, and the currencies less than 10 litres are coins.
1994 1 Lites banknote
From the end of 1993 to 1994, Lithuania issued a series of small-denomination banknotes in three categories, 1, 2 and 5 litres, and also updated the face design of the 10, 20 and 50 litres banknotes.
10 Litig banknotes in 1993
The two sets of Taronga banknotes issued by Lithuania were mainly "beasts" on the faces, and it was not until the issuance of litt banknotes that the portraits of the figures appeared on the banknotes.
Between 1997 and 2000, Lithuania issued new editions of Litas banknotes in six denominations: 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 and 500 litas.
1997 10 litigette banknote
Between 2001 and 2003, the face value of the banknotes 10, 20 and 50 litres was updated, and the level of anti-counterfeiting was improved.
10-litter banknote in 2001
In 2007, Lithuania updated its 10th, 20th and 100-litigned banknotes, which were still fine-tuned to improve anti-counterfeiting. In order to compare more intuitively, I have chosen a unified 10-litre denomination for each version of the banknote here.
2007 Lithuanian 10 litigata banknote
As early as 2006, Lithuania applied to join the eurozone, but was rejected by the EU because of its substandard domestic economic conditions.
In July 2014, lithuania officially joined the eurozone on January 1, 2015, becoming the 19th member of the eurozone, after meeting the entry requirements in terms of inflation, government debt, fiscal deficit, etc., and has since abandoned its own banknotes and started using the euro.
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