Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1/2 Lek Prova
| Issuer | Albania |
|---|---|
| Year | 1926 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | The Albanian double-headed eagle displayed in high relief occupies the central field, its two heads facing outward to left and right with open beaks and spread wings fully extended, the talons splayed beneath. The heraldic device is rendered with fine feather detail in a confident neoclassical style engraved by Giuseppe Romagnoli. The circular Latin legend SHQIPNI arcs around the upper periphery, flanked by a raised dot on each side at the base, with the date 1926 positioned in the lower field beneath the eagle. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Albania's first national coinage was issued in 1926 following the proclamation of Ahmet Zogu as President — a political stabilization effort after years of post-Ottoman disorder and competing foreign interests. The Prova issues of that year were struck in Rome as pattern submissions, never approved for general circulation. Most were retained by the Italian mint or distributed to officials, leaving surviving examples genuinely scarce rather than artificially so.