Latvian rublis 1 Rublis, 2 and 5 Rubļi, 10, 20, 50, 200 and 500 Rubļu. This second Latvian rublis was withdrawn from circulation on 18 October 1993, but could be exchanged for lats until 1 July 1994, when it lost validity. and the historic national currency - the "lats" - was reintroduced in 1993, replacing the Rublis at the ratio of 1 lats = 200 Rubļu. The lats was replaced on 1 January 2014 by the Euro, at the rate of 0.702804 Lats to 1 Euro. Latvian rublis The Latvian rublis () was the currency of Latvia from 1919 to 1922 and
Currency substitution displaced by a stable currency. At the beginning of this process, the store-of-value function of the domestic currency is replaced by the foreign currency. Then, the unit-of-account function of the domestic currency is displaced when many prices are quoted in a foreign currency. A prolonged period of high inflation will induce the domestic currency to lose its function as medium of exchange when the public carries out many transactions in foreign currency. Ize and Levy-Yeyati (1998) examine the determinants of deposit and credit currency substitution, concluding that currency substitution is driven by the volatility of inflation and the real exchange