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0.50 Lire Italiane Berat

Issuer Dhoma Tregetare e Beratit (Berat Chamber of Commerce)
Year 1924
Type Local banknote
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Obverse lettering 0,50
GJYSMË
Lirë Italiane
Arkëtari
Kryetari
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Reverse lettering DHOMA TREGETARE E BERATIT
LIRË 0,50 ITALIANE
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Me të çfaqur paguhet Maj 1924
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Albanian Chamber of Commerce emergency notes from the early 1920s are among the rarest locally-produced fiscal paper in the Balkans. Berat's chamber issued this fractional note during a period when Albania's monetary system was still unresolved — the country had no central bank until 1925 and no stable national currency, leaving provincial commercial bodies to fill the gap with their own fiduciary instruments.

The printer, Satyp. Dhori Koti in Korçë, was a small Albanian typographic press, not a specialist security printer. The technical limitations show in surviving examples.

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