50 euro cent LITHUANIA (from 2015)

in the centre inside a circle a knight in armor riding a horse jumping left; behind knight's head year of issue; on the bottom: LIETUVA (Lithuania); at the edge over a background of horizontal lines a ring of twelve five-pointed stars - symbol of the European Union

right from the centre face value: 50, below in two lines: EURO / CENT; on the left a map of Europe; in the background of the map vertically six parallel lines ending on both sides with five-pointed stars (the reverse is common for all euro coins)

reeded

1 I 2015

still in circulation

Antanas Žukauskas, Arvydas Každailis, Luc Luycx (initials LL after 50 on the reverse)

Lietuvos Monetų Kalykla (The Lithuanian Mint), Vilnius (mint mark before LIETUVA on the obverse)

2015

39 965 000

+ 35 000 in annual boxed sets

In 2007 a short series (ca. 10,000 pcs.) of coins of this type was struck to prepare the mint and vending-machines producers for introduction of euro currency. As a result of delaying the introduction the coins produced with year of issue 2007 became some kind of commemorative tokens.