The Lietuvos bankas has become a member (1st January) of the Eurosystem as the euro entered circulation in Lithuania today, bringing the number of European Union (EU) Member States using the single European currency to 19, the European Central Bank (ECB) announced. Lietuvos bankas, the national central bank of Lithuania, becomes a member of the […]

The Bank of Lithuania have issued a new silver coin which will mark an important day and event in the country’s modern history, that of its admission into the European Union’s Euro-zone. As a celebration of this event and to say a loving and appreciative “Farewell” to the Litas, the Bank of Lithuania has issued […]

The Bank of Lithuania have issued two new coins which mark an especially important event which occurred in all three Baltic states in 1989 and had its origins from the anniversary of the Molotov / von Ribbentrop pact which spelled out the division of some Eastern European countries between the USSR and the Third Reich. […]

The European Central Bank and the Bank of Lithuania – Lietuvos Bankas have announced that Lithuania, the last of the three Baltic States to join the Eurozone, will do so from the 1st January 2015. The EU Council formally approved the accession of Lithuania to the euro area on 1 January 2015 and determined the […]

The Bank of Lithuania have issued a new gold coin which focuses on Baltic Science – their contributors and its achievements. This coin highlights the studies of the region, its language and culture. In issuing coins from this series, the fields of science are discussed by the Bank of Lithuania with the Lithuanian Academy of […]