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1 Frank Kart
| Issuer | Municipality of Vlorë (Bashkia e Vlorës) |
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| Year | 1924 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown and red letterpress print on a grey underprint. A portrait vignette of Ismail Qemali (Ismail Qemal Vlora) is positioned at left, with a double-headed eagle vignette at centre. Two manuscript signature spaces, for the Municipal Commissioner and the Treasurer respectively, appear below the central design, with Albanian inscriptions identifying each role. |
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| Reverse description | Black, red and brown letterpress print on a fine crosshatch guilloche underprint covering the entire field. A large red circle at centre bears the denomination numeral and currency text, surrounded by the note's legal authorization text in Albanian and a decorative border frame. |
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Vlorë's municipal kartat (cart notes) of 1924 were emergency fractional currency issued by the city administration to address a chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage — a problem that plagued much of Albania throughout the early 1920s as the newly independent state struggled to establish a functioning monetary system. The Albanian franc itself was not yet on stable footing, and local authorities in several cities took matters into their own hands.
These municipal issues were never legal tender beyond their issuing locality and circulated almost exclusively in the Vlorë bazaar economy. Survival rates are low — the paper was thin, the notes were used hard, and few were ever formally redeemed.