Bank of Lithuania

100 litas banknote
(issued 2000)

100lt

100lt

Front.On the right of the banknote there is a portrait of Simonas Daukantas (1793–1864), the initiator of the national rebirth movement, historian, who has written the first history of Lithuania in the Lithuanian language. There are the inscriptions LIETUVOS BANKAS (BANK OF LITHUANIA) at the top and SIMTAS LITU (ONE HUNDRED LITAS) at the bottom of the banknote. At the left edge of the banknote vertically runs the inscription LIETUVOS BANKO VALDYBOS PIRMININKAS (CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF THE BANK OF LITHUANIA) alongside with his signature and the year of issue 2000. The front of the banknote contains green, light brown and bluish colours.

Back. The picture of the Old Town of Vilnius, one of the largest in the Middle and East Europe, is presented on the back of the note. In the centre an architectural ensemble of Vilnius University, founded in 1579, with St. John's church and the belfry is depicted. There are the inscriptions LIETUVOS BANKAS (BANK OF LITHUANIA) at the top and SIMTAS LITU (ONE HUNDRED LITAS) at the left edge of the note. The back of the banknote contains green, brown and bluish colours.

Size of the note: 135 mmx65 mm. The designer of the banknote is Rytis Valantinas.

Notable security features of the banknote:

		Watermark – a multi-tonal portrait of Simonas Daukantas visible when the note is held up to the light.
		Denomination numeral 100 on the left side of the front printed in optically variable inks changing colour from gold to green.
		Microperforation of the denomination numeral 100 (an outline of the denomination numeral made up of tiny holes) visible when the note is held up to the light. On both sides of the banknote, the microperforated area does not contain punched out paper fragments that could be distinguished by touch.
		Latent image (denomination numeral 100) in the left shoulder of the portrait visible when the note is tilted towards the light at an acute angle.
		Security thread – an embedded vertical strip with the repeated microtext 100 LITU, visible when the note is held up to the light.

Other security features