The surviving evidence establishes this unit of account, but a fuller narrative is still being developed. Its known connections are shown above; the research page documents what is established and what remains uncertain.

Replacement by an existing currency

This conversion belongs to the history of the retiring unit. It does not make that unit an ancestor of the currency adopted.

Euro · 2015
3.45280 Lithuanian litas = 1 EUR Conversion terms and evidence ↗

Turning points

June 25, 1993

Currency replacement

Lithuania exchanged 100 talonas per litas. ^[1]

1993

Name revival

Inference: The 1993 litas revived the interwar national currency name. The timeline establishes two introductions separated by Soviet incorporation; no direct interwar-to-modern conversion implied. ^[2]

Lithuania: monetary substitution; not necessarily last cash tender

Euro monetary substitution

1 EUR = 3.45280 LTL. Lithuania: euro adoption January 1, 2015; cash January 1, 2015. Regulation 974/98 substitutes the euro for each participating state’s currency on its adoption date; cash changeover is separately defined. ^[3] ^[4] ^[5]

Lithuania: euro cash legal-tender start

Euro cash changeover

Lithuania: euro adoption January 1, 2015; cash January 1, 2015. ^[4]

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“Lithuanian litas — restored 1993 currency.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Updated 2026-10-13; data version v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/T-FTM000805.html

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