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Set Details
Note Description: Lithuania "Commemorative"
5 Litai 1929
Grade: VF 35
Country: LIT
Note Number: LIT26a
Signatures/
Vignettes:		 - Printer: BWC
Certification #: 8034974-035  
Owner: Evaldas
Sets Competing: Lithuanian Banknotes 2  Score: 171
Date Added: 11/13/2018
Research: See PMG's Census Report for this Note

Owner's Description

Lithuania Currency 5 Litai banknote 1929 - 1930 Commemorative issue
500th Anniversary of Vytautas the Great 1430-1930
Bank of Lithuania - Lietuvos Bankas

Obverse: Portrait of Vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania. The Coat of arms of Lithuania - Vytis ("the Chaser", Knight on horseback) at right. Signs of Vytautas the Great at lower center (capital letter "V" in the upper left corner and crossed sabre and spear head on the right. In 15 c. such marking was engraved on monetary units of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.) Denomination figures “5” in ornate guilloche on each corner. Centered in words.

Reverse: Battle of Gruenwald (Battle of Žalgiris) at center.

Designer: Adomas Galdikas.
Printer: Bradbury Wilkinson & Co. England.

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