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Latvia paper money catalog and Latvian currency history

• A brief monetary history:
  • Russian currency, till 1918
  • Latvian Ruble = (Russian Ruble),1918-1922
  • Lat = (50 Latvian Rubles) = 100 Santimi, 1922-1940
  • Russian currency, 1940-1991
  • Latvian Ruble = (Russian Ruble),1991-1993
  • Lat = (200 Latvian Rubles) = 100 Santimi, from 1993
  • Euro = 0.7028 Lat, from 2014

• For Russian occupation issues see:
  • Russia
    • Imperial Russia, 1721-1918
    • West Russia, regional and local issues, 1914-1925
    • Soviet Union, 1940-1990
• For later issues see:
  • European Union, from 2014

• To purchase Latvian banknotes, please check our inventory :
  World banknotes countries A-Z

Pick #	Date
		Republic, 1919-1940 (after collapse of Imperial Russia)
1-8	1919	1, 1, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 500 Rubli
9-12	(1920)	5, 10, 25, 50 Kapeiks
13	1920	10 Latu
14	1923	100 Latu
15-16	1924	20, 50 Latu
17	1925	20 Latu
18	1928	25 Latu
19-22	1929-39	25, 50, 100, 500 Latu
23-24	1925-26	5, 10 Latu
25	1933-34	10 Latu
29-30	1935-40	10, 20 Latu
33-34	1940	5, 20 Latu
		Republic (after collapse of Soviet Union)
35-42	1992	1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 200, 500 Rublu
43-48	1992	5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500 Latu
49-52	1996-2006	5, 10, 20, 100 Latu
53-58	2006-2009	5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500 Latu

Pick #	Date
		Soviet Riga, 1919
R1-4	1919	1, 3, 5, 10 Rubli