New coin dedicated to Liepāja will be presented on the coin release day, 17th of June

Everyone is invited to visit the Liepāja Museum, where the city administration and representatives of Latvijas Banka will present the new coin.

Latvija's third-largest city, Liepāja, will be the subject of the next coin in Latvijas Banka's series highlighting the Baltic nation's regions.

The bank said that the silver collector coin will be released on 17 June and will be presented by the city administration and the central bank at the Liepāja Museum at Kūrmājas prospekts 16/18, Liepāja, at 17.00. Everyone is invited to attend the event.

On the coin, the artist Krišš Salmanis has depicted various elements of the history of Latvia's third-largest city, which the central bank describes in its usual purple prose.

"On the reverse of the coin, soaking it all in, is the Sun – the main listener of the Wind's ballads. It only takes a short walk to go from the city's heart to the spacious beach. There, the centuries melt together like sand in your sandals and strands of hair drift over the water's surface, weaving with the glow of the afternoon sun," says the central bank.

"The artist addresses several issues in the coin. So where does Liepāja's strength lie? In its paradoxes? Or in the layers of its history? Can one side of a coin exist without the other? Here, opposites do not clash – they live in harmony. And in the tension between them, Liepāja carves out its own, unmistakable character," it goes on.

Setting such philosophising aside, the silver collector coin will be available for purchase on the website e-monetas.lv/en from 12:00 (noon) on 17 June. The price of the coin is 82.00 euro; the purchase limit for one buyer will be 3 coins. The mintage of the coin is 3000 and it was struck by Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt in the Netherlands.