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Latvian lats
A history told through its predecessors and the currencies that followed.
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Predecessor1992
Russian rubleDocumentedPredecessor1993
Latvian rubleDocumentedThis currency
Latvian latsDates, conversion terms and evidence 2 connections
Russian ruble Latvian ruble
1992Documented1 RUB = 1 Latvian rubleLatvian rubles entered alongside Soviet and Russian notes at 1:1. The inherited ruble-zone unit, not the later 1998 Russian ruble scale.
Read the evidence and qualifications ↗Latvian ruble Latvian lats
1993Documented200 Latvian ruble = 1 Latvian latsThe lats entered at 200 Latvian rubles per lats. Five-lats notes came first. The June date in Bundesbank metadata refers to later denominations; it is not first lats circulation.
Read the evidence and qualifications ↗The currency’s profile explains its later replacement by an existing currency. That conversion is not founding ancestry.