Latvian last silver collector "lats" coin
On Thursday, 14 November, the Bank of Latvia issues a silver collector coin "365" offering intellectual and scientific reflection on the topic of time and change. This coin puts a symbolic full stop to the era of the renewed lats.
The artist of the coin is Paulis Liepa. The coin was struck by Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt(the Netherlands). It features a circle symbolising 360 + 5 degrees and thus incorporating also the time reference.
An interesting rebus of fractions has also been encoded in the coin, based on the number 4: seasons, points on the compass, quarters. The obverse of the coin depicts concentric circular lines symbolising one second, one minute, one hour, one day, one month and one year, while on the reverse the artist transforms a shiny sector in the diagram of a circle into a symbol for 1 lats.
The collector coin "365" is legal tender in the Republic of Latvia. The maximum mintage of the coin is limited to 5 000.
The coin will be on sale at the Bank of Latvia (at the Cashier's Offices at K. Valdemāra iela 1B in Riga and, starting from Thursday afternoon, at the Liepāja and Daugavpils Branches) and such traditional points of coin sale as banks and souvenir and jewellery shops. The price of the coin at the Bank of Latvia's Cashier's Offices is 22.31 lats.
The artist of the coin is Paulis Liepa. The coin was struck by Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt(the Netherlands). It features a circle symbolising 360 + 5 degrees and thus incorporating also the time reference.
An interesting rebus of fractions has also been encoded in the coin, based on the number 4: seasons, points on the compass, quarters. The obverse of the coin depicts concentric circular lines symbolising one second, one minute, one hour, one day, one month and one year, while on the reverse the artist transforms a shiny sector in the diagram of a circle into a symbol for 1 lats.
The collector coin "365" is legal tender in the Republic of Latvia. The maximum mintage of the coin is limited to 5 000.
The coin will be on sale at the Bank of Latvia (at the Cashier's Offices at K. Valdemāra iela 1B in Riga and, starting from Thursday afternoon, at the Liepāja and Daugavpils Branches) and such traditional points of coin sale as banks and souvenir and jewellery shops. The price of the coin at the Bank of Latvia's Cashier's Offices is 22.31 lats.
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