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0.50 Lire Italiane Berat
| Issuer | Dhoma Tregetare e Beratit (Berat Chamber of Commerce) |
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| Year | 1924 |
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| Value | 0.50 Lire Italiane |
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| Obverse description | At centre, a crowned Liberty figure in a dancing pose is rendered in red letterpress against a light guilloche underprint. The denomination '0,50' appears in red at both the upper left and upper right corners, with the signature designations 'Arkëtari' and 'Kryetari' printed in smaller text beneath the respective corner numerals. A decorative red border runs the full perimeter of the note, framing the central vignette and corner inscriptions. |
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| Reverse lettering | DHOMA TREGETARE E BERATIT LIRË 0,50 ITALIANE No. 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.