| Description : The German linguist August Schleicher (1821‐1868)
recognised that Lithuanian is the most conservative, ancient living Indo‐European language, highly frequented with
grammatical forms, some of which can also be found in Sanskrit or in other ancient languages ‐ known in the
German‐speaking world as "Indo‐Germanic" ‐ such as ancient Greek or Latin. In 1861 he attempted to
reconstruct the original language, called "Protoindoeuropean", by including Lithuanian. Book smuggling from Prussia
undermined the ban on the printing of Lithuanian books with Latin letters. This ban together with the boycott of Cyrillic
script was lifted in 1904. The letters of the largely phonetic Lithuanian alphabet form the background of the coin motif
designed by Liudas Parulskis, the pre‐production plaster model was created by Giedrius Paulauskis. The
emboldened word "AČIŪ" means "thank you" and below it to the right is the circular mint mark "LMK" of the
Lithuanian mint Lietuvos monetų kalykla in Vilnius. At the bottom is the issuing country "LIETUVA" (Lithuania)
and below that is the year "2015". |
