100 litas banknote
(issued 2007)
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.
New notable security features of the banknote:
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1. A holographic metallic strip with vertically and horizontally repeated inscription 100 LTL, changing colour depending on the angle.
2. Denomination numeral 100 on the left-hand side of the front of a banknote printed in optically variable inks changing colour from green to magenta.
3. An additional watermark – the denomination numeral 100.
4. Special paper tinted in green colour.
Note the banknote of 2007 issue does not have a microperforated numeral 100.
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Other security features