| Description : Lithuania dedicates this commemorative coin to the people of
Ukraine who have been suffering and dying since Russia occupied and annexed Crimea in 2014 and launched its invasion on the
24 February 2022. Coin designer Eglė Žemaitė depicts a stylised sunflower, Ukraine's
national plant, which is grown extensively in the country. Around the flower basket with its numerous small tubular flowers
is written in a semicircle the issue occasion "KARTU SU UKRAINA" (together with Ukraine, in Lithuanian), surrounded by reed
blossoms in the form of stylised people holding hands, embracing and protecting each other, thus embodying unity, support
and the power of togetherness. The shapes of the child and adult figures look like tongues of flame around a rising sun, a
sign of hope. Above them hover birds alluding to those who lost their lives in this war or sacrificed as national defenders,
and their departing souls. At the top left is written "LIETUVA" (Lithuania), below it the year of issue with "2023" and on
the right the circular mint mark "LMK" of the Lithuanian mint Lietuvos monetų kalykla in Vilnius. |
