1 Litas Baltic Way

Features

Issuer	Lithuania
Ruling authority	Republic (1990-date)
Type	Circulating commemorative coins
Year	1999
Value	1 Litas (1 LTL)
Currency	New litas (1993-2014)
Composition	Copper-nickel
Weight	6.25 g
Diameter	22.3 mm
Thickness	2.2 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Medal alignment ↑↑
Issued	16 August 1999
Demonetized	1 January 2015
Number	N# 3111
References	KM# 117 Standard Catalog of World Coins (85 volumes).

Commemorative issue

10th anniversary of the Baltic Way protest

Obverse

National arms on shield within shaded circle divides date

Script: Latin

Lettering:
LIETUVA
19 99
1 LITAS

Engraver: Antanas Žukauskas

Reverse

Design of six clasped hands with three oak leaves above encircled by text, representing the human chain formed during the protest between the three countries of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
BALTIJOS KELIUI - 10
LIETUVA * LATVIJA * ESTIJA

Engraver: Antanas Žukauskas

Edge

Segmented in reeded and plain sections

Mint

Lithuanian Mint (Lietuvos Monetu Kalykla), Vilnius, Lithuania (1990-date)

Comments

Tenth anniversary of the Baltic Way. On August 23, 1989, some two million people formed a 600 km chain to protest against the Soviet occupation.
The Baltic Way is the name given to this human chain running from Vilnius to Tallinn, via Riga. Automatically translated

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Date			Mintage		VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
1999			1 000 000				$ 1.40	$ 1.40	$ 1.40	$ 2.40

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