2005-11-30
The coin dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Great Seimas of Vilnius in the Seimas building
The 50 litas commemorative coin dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Great Seimas of Vilnius will be presented tomorrow, December 1st in the Seimas building in the capital city at 2:00 p.m.
The Great Seimas of Vilnius (Congress of Lithuanians in Vilnius) took place on 21-22 November 1905 (according to the present calendar - 4-5 December) in the Vilnius City Hall (now - National Philharmonic). There participated about 2 000 Lithuanians from Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, and Latvia.
The great merit of the Seimas of Vilnius (Congress of Lithuanians in Vilnius) was that Lithuanian teachers were allowed to work in primary schools, the Lithuanian language was allowed to be taught as a separate discipline, press became freer, and freedom to set up various economic and cultural societies was provided.
The author of the graphic (artistic) design of the coin dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Great Seimas of Vilnius is Albertas Gurskas, and the author of the plaster models is Rytas Jonas Belevičius.
The coins were minted at the state enterprise Lithuanian Mint.The mintage of the coin is 1 500 pieces