| Description : In 1860‐1881 in Juodkrantė on the Curonian Spit the
largest archaeological amber discovery in the world was made, but was largely lost during the Second World War. The coin
motif designed by Jolanta Mikulskytė and the pre‐production plaster model was created by Giedrius
Paulauskis. It shows a 5000 year old Neolithic amber disk, one of the characteristic symbols of the Baltic culture.
The disc is decorated with a cross of drilled imprints ‐ representing the axis of the earth. At the top is the name of
the issuing country "LIETUVA" (Lithuania), flanked on the left by the circular mint mark "LMK" of the Lithuanian mint
Lietuvos monetų kalykla in Vilnius and to the right the year of issue "2016". |
