Name: “20th ANNIVERSARY OF LITHUANIAN PROVISIONAL CURRENCY”
Issue date: 2012 09 29
629 2.00 Lt – Provisional Lithuanian Currency. The Talonas notes were used as a provisional payment means during the first year of independence (restored in 1990). The Talonas notes were put into circulation on 5 August 1991. Firstly they circulated along with Russian roubles. For payment, one had to give the same amounts in roubles and Talonas. On 1 October 1992, the Talonas notes were declared to be the only legal payment means in Lithuania. Thus Lithuania left the rouble zone.
Design: D. Gasiūnaitė. Offset. Art paper. Stamp size: 34.5 x 30 mm. Perforation 14.
Edition: 0.10 million each stamp. Printed by “Österreichische Staatsdruckerei GmbH“ printing - house in Austria (Vienna).
Issue date: 2012 09 29
629 2.00 Lt – Provisional Lithuanian Currency. The Talonas notes were used as a provisional payment means during the first year of independence (restored in 1990). The Talonas notes were put into circulation on 5 August 1991. Firstly they circulated along with Russian roubles. For payment, one had to give the same amounts in roubles and Talonas. On 1 October 1992, the Talonas notes were declared to be the only legal payment means in Lithuania. Thus Lithuania left the rouble zone.
Design: D. Gasiūnaitė. Offset. Art paper. Stamp size: 34.5 x 30 mm. Perforation 14.
Edition: 0.10 million each stamp. Printed by “Österreichische Staatsdruckerei GmbH“ printing - house in Austria (Vienna).
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