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<p>Created page with &quot;<a href="/index.php/File:SB525-75507o.jpg" title="File:SB525-75507o.jpg">300px|thumb|Stack&#039;s Bowers May 2025 Collectors Choice Online Auction, lot 75507</a> <a href="/index.php/File:SB525-75507r.jpg" title="File:SB525-75507r.jpg">300px|thumb</a> This specimen was lot 75507...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[Image:SB525-75507o.jpg|300px|thumb|Stack's Bowers May 2025 Collectors Choice Online Auction, lot 75507]]<br /> [[Image:SB525-75507r.jpg|300px|thumb]]<br /> <br /> This specimen was lot 75507 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, May 2025), where it sold for $192. The catalog description&lt;sup&gt;[1]&lt;/sup&gt; noted, &quot;LITHUANIA. 50 Litu, 2008. PCGS PROOF-69 Deep Cameo. [[Lithuania]] Nature - Bumblebee. St. Casimer on obverse.&quot; St. Casimir does not appear on this NCLT but on KM 154, also struck in 2008. Numista states only 6,205 were sold out of the 10,000 authorized. The litas was dropped in favor of the euro in January 2015.<br /> <br /> ''Recorded mintage'': 10,000 proofs.<br /> <br /> ''Specifications'': 28.28 g, 0.925 fine silver, 38.61 mm diameter, edge lettered KAMANĖ PO ČIOBRYNUS LEKIOJA, GIEDRĄ NEŠIOJA, designed by Vladas Oržekauskas and Alfonsas Vaura.<br /> <br /> ''Catalog reference'': KM-159.<br /> <br /> ''[[Bibliography|Sources]]'':<br /> * Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, ''Standard Catalog of World Coins, 2001-Date, 13th ed.,'' Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2018.<br /> * &lt;sup&gt;[1]&lt;/sup&gt;Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, ''May 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction: Ancient &amp; World Coins, featuring selections from the Sydney F. Martin Collection,'' Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.<br /> <br /> ''Link to:''<br /> * [[Lithuania 2001 50 litu KM-130|2001 50 litų, Jonas Basanavičius]]<br /> * [[Lithuania 2010 500 litu|2010 500 litų, 600th anniversary of the battle of Grunwald]]<br /> * [[Lithuania 2011 50 litu|2011 50 litų, European basketball championship]]<br /> * [[Coins and currency dated 2008]]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Selections from the Stack's Bowers 2025 Collectors Choice sale]][[Category: European crowns and thalers]]</div>

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