Hello everyone, im a banknote collector from Kosovo and i wanted to share with you the beautiful banknote of your country! I also wanted to ask you, what could you have bought with this one, what was it’s value back then?

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  1. Back then, the salary was about 400 Litas, it wasn’t a lot, but you could live the whole month for it. It’s difficult to say what you could buy for 2 Litas because it was 30 years ago. Lithuanian Litas was pegged to Euro at a rate 1 Lt for 3,4528 Eur before the transition to Eur. But you could buy more stuff for the same amount of money in those old days because inflation was smaller back then. These banknotes didn’t stay for a long time, they were replaced by 2 Litas coin after several years.

  7. I guess you could have bought with it back then cheapest bread, milk and some grain products, but that’s a stretch really. Alternatively, you could have bought school lunch in cafeterias for 2 litas.

  9. This one is the best of all. Imo better than 5,10 and other popular ones. People were sellint it for 30 Euros a year ago. 2 Lt was 0.5 coca-cola bottle worth

  10. Depends what year really, but what I remember is you could buy 20 pieces of dragon ball gum, which was the best thing ever.

  11. Omg it reminds me old times..
    So for example back in the days you could have bought:
    4 cheap icecreams
    or 20 cheap chewing gums
    or piece of finest quality, fresh straight from the bakery bread
    or 2 liters of milk
    or 4 games in the sloting machines
    or 1 hour of using PC in the the “internet cafe”
    or 2 packs of candies
    or 2 ingman finest quality “cone form” icecreams

  13. People forget that Litas had different value over the years. Before the currency exchange 4.5 Litas was about enough for school lunch of a kotlet, some veggies and a kompot drink. And school lunch was one of the cheapests foods out there. The times weren’t as good as people remember.

  14. A box of juice, and a chocolate bar (Mania) in my preschool (90ies). I remember we once found one on the ground and I bought some chocolate and a box of tic tacs

  17. This note was introduced in year 1992 at that time medium vage was 127 Litas per month, it’s value shifted until 2015 when we joined EU, so before Euro the last medium vage was bruto 2467(neto 1913) litas.

    So from my memories as a 90’s kid 2 litas was a fucking lot to have, later on it just devalued, and became more of a pocket change, at some point before joining EU, 2 litas became a coin 🙂

  18. We used to say in 2000 that you could get a full bag of groceries for just 10-20 litai (4.5 eur), then inflation happened and in 2008 that became 50 litai (10 eur), then in 2015 switch to euro currency happened, and it became 20 euros, again inflation in the last couple years, it’s back to 50 again.. 50 eur for a full grocery bag.

    A lot of people disliked changing to euro and are always comparing food prices to e.g. Poland and such.

  25. Hey OP, just saw your other post in Portugal. I’m portuguese in the process of moving to Lithuania.

  26. It’s less than one euro on paper, but prices were different back then.

    You could buy a small lunch for 2 LT in those days. 😉

  27. As far as I remember, you could buy a bottle of not so bad beer back then for that 2 litas. An ironic thing was, that the person on that banknote, bishop Valančius, was very strong proponent of sobriety in XIX century, also a symbol of sobriety in Lithuania to this day. So by using this note to buy beer you felt slightly bad, mildly ashamed to the guy on the note. He was literally condemning you for using his face to buy alcohol. Just look at his eyes. Rant over.

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