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Stardust

Material silver of fineness .999
Year 2023
Mintage 4000
Artists Graphic Design: Līga Kitchen Plaster Model: Ligita Franckeviča
This coin is no longer available for sale. The coin remains only in collectors’ possession and in our archive as a record of its history.
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Technical Description

Denomination: 5.00 euro
Weight: 22 g
Metal: silver of fineness .999
Diameter: 35 mm
Quality: Proof
Maximum Mintage: 4000
Year: 2023
Edge: The edge bears the inscriptions "LATVIJAS REPUBLIKA" and "LATVIJAS BANKA", separated by rhombic dots.
Mint: UAB Lietuvos monetu kalykla (Lithuania)
Graphic Design: Līga Kitchen
Plaster Model: Ligita Franckeviča
Obverse

Obverse

(front)

The centre features an image of a person in motion with dot-connecting lines going through his body and resembling a constellation. In the background of this image, a starry sky is depicted at the top of the coin, while a terrain with frosting of different intensity – at the bottom. The inscription "IMANTS ZIEDONIS" is semi-circled to the right along the upper edge of the obverse.

Reverse

Reverse

(back)

The centre displays a tree with branches full of bursting buds and different living creatures, among them also a person reading a book. One of the lower branches is shaped like the number "5" with the inscription "EURO" in the upper part of the number. The inscription "2023", arranged in a semicircle, is at the bottom on the right.

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Artists

Graphic Artist

Līga Kitchen

Līga Kitchen (birth name – Palmbaha) was born on 22 April 1982 in Riga. Her drawings are free, brave, joyful – like those of a child whose imagination and joy of creation have not yet been limited by taught techniques, assumptions imposed by life experience, regulations, or prejudice. In fact, both the markedly simple, clear structure of the compositions – achieved by focusing only on what matters most, – along with the choice of colour fields, lines, image characteristics, and interplay,...
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Līga Kitchen
Plaster Model

Ligita Franckeviča

Born on 30 July 1947 in Tukums. Ligita Franckeviča has an innate talent for sculpting. If her artistic flair and skill reigned supreme, the world would be transformed into a realm of silky, rounded shapes, each flowing seamlessly into the next. It would be a world without dull planes, sharp corners, or jarring edges, where every thing is self-sufficient and every being – dignified and enveloped in gentle silence. A world swaying in the soft, velvety dance of light and shadow, at times...
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Ligita Franckeviča