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0,10 Franga Argjènt (Silver Franc)
| Issuer | Bashkija e Korçës (Municipality of Korçë) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a dense geometric guilloche underprint in red and blue, filling the entire field. The issuer's name 'BASHKIJA E KORÇËS' is printed in bold letters across the top, with the denomination '0,10' in large numerals at centre, followed by 'FRG. ARGJËNT' below. A further line of text references the issuing authority and date, while two manuscript signatures of municipal officials appear at the lower left and right corners within the border frame of interlaced rope-pattern design. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a fine floral guilloche underprint in pale tones across the entire field, framed by the same interlaced rope-pattern border as the obverse. A large circular red handstamp of the Municipality of Korçë is applied at centre, over which a dark blue ink stamp of the Albanian double-headed eagle is superimposed. The serial number, prefixed 'N.', is printed in red at the lower left, with the denomination numeral '10' repeated in the four corners. |
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Bashkija e Korçës — the municipality of Korçë — issued this fractional note as a purely local solution to a coin shortage that was endemic across Albania in the early 1920s, a period when no central bank yet existed and no Albanian national currency had been formally established. The franc-based denomination reflects the French administrative influence lingering from the period of French military occupation of Korçë between 1916 and 1920, when the city briefly operated as a French-protected enclave with its own autonomous character.
Municipal scrip of this kind from interwar Albania is genuinely rare in any grade — Korçë's issues were never reprinted, and the quantities originally produced were small by design.