Banknotes of the Lithuanian litas

rdf:langString Banknotes of the Lithuanian litas

rdf:langString The modern banknotes of Lithuania are denominated in litas. All banknotes were of the same size (135 mm × 65 mm) except for the 500 litų banknote. They bore signatures of Minister of Finance and/or of Chairperson of the Bank of Lithuania Board. 10, 20, and 50 litų banknotes had 4 releases. This was mainly due to security reasons: number of security features was gradually increased from virtually 0, to 9, 14 and eventually to 17. The first release bore the date "1991" but were actually released to the public in 1993 for a very brief time (June–October). Since they were replaced in the same year, the first release is dated to 1991 and the second to 1993. The banknotes were not printed in Lithuania. At first they were printed by the United States Banknote Corporation, later by the UK-based Thomas De La Rue & Co. Ltd. and the Germany-based Giesecke & Devrient GmbH.