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1 Frank Kart (Paper)
| Issuer | Bashkia e Vlorës (Municipality of Vlorë/Valona) |
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| Year | 1924 |
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| Value | 1 Frank Kart |
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| Obverse lettering | BASHKIA E VLORËS 1 Fr. Kart Frank NJË Kart Kryetari i Bashkisë Arkëtari |
| Reverse description | Salmon-pink ground with a fine dot underprint, framed by a simple rectangular rule border ornamented with small square devices at regular intervals. Three lines of bold black letterpress text at centre state the guarantee and payment clauses, followed by a smaller line citing the Municipal Council resolution of 11 May 1924; an oval cartouche at the foot carries the anti-counterfeiting warning in bold capitals, with the printer's imprint 'Shtyp, Vlorë' beneath. The numeral '1' appears in each corner. |
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Municipal emergency scrip from Vlorë — a port city that had declared itself the seat of Albanian independence in 1912 and remained politically volatile through the early 1920s. By 1924, the central government in Tirana was barely functional, and several municipalities issued their own fractional notes to cover the chronic shortage of small change that plagued the country throughout this period.
Printed locally by Shtyp in Vlorë rather than sourced from a European security printer, the production quality reflects the constraints of a provincial press. This is a genuinely rare survival — locally printed Albanian municipal scrip from the 1920s was ephemeral by design, and very little made it out of circulation intact.