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1.000 Leke
| Issuer | Banka e Shqiperise |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Size | 150 x 74 mm |
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| Reverse lettering | BANKA E SHQIPERISE 1000 NJEMIJE LEKE 1995 |
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| Protection description | Skënderbeu's portrait visible when held to light; embedded security thread running vertically through the note. |
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Albania's post-communist monetary restructuring through the early 1990s was turbulent enough, but the real catastrophe came just two years after this note's issue — the 1997 collapse of the pyramid scheme network that had absorbed the savings of roughly two-thirds of Albanian households. The resulting civil unrest killed around 2,000 people and briefly dismantled state authority across much of the country. Notes from this 1995 series were caught in the middle of that crisis, circulating through a period of acute instability before the lek was stabilized with international assistance.
De La Rue printed the series in London.