500 litas banknote
(issued 2000)

Front.On the right of the banknote there is a portrait of Vincas Kudirka (1858-1899), a Lithuanian writer, participant of the national rebirth movement and author of the Lithuanian national anthem. At the top is the inscription LIETUVOS BANKAS (BANK OF LITHUANIA), and at the bottom of the banknote, PENKI SIMTAI LITU (FIVE HUNDRED LITAS). At the left edge of the banknote runs a vertical 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 red, violet and brown colours.

Back. Against the background of a view of Lithuanian nature, the back of the note contains an image of the Bell of the Freedom of Lithuania with the inscription: "Thou shall ring through the centuries to the children of Lithuania: he who does not defend freedom is not worthy of it". At the top on the note runs the inscription LIETUVOS BANKAS (BANK OF LITHUANIA), and PENKI SIMTAI LITU (FIVE HUNDRED LITAS) at the right edge of the note. The back of the banknote contains red, dark red and green brown colours.

Size of the note: 147 mmx70 mm. The designer of the banknote is Giedrius Jonaitis.

Notable security features of the banknote:

Watermark – a multi-tonal portrait of Vincas Kudirka visible when the note is held up to the light.   A band with the vertical denomination numeral 500 printed in optically variable inks changing colour from brown to green on the back.   A latent numeral 500 to the right of the portrait, above the shoulder, visible when the note is tilted towards the light at an acute angle.   A holographic metallic strip with vertically and horizontally repeated inscription 500 LTL, changing colour depending on the angle.   Security thread – an embedded vertical strip with the repeated microtext 500 LTL, visible when the note is held up to the light.

Other security features