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1 Frank Kart (Paper)
| Issuer | Bashkia e Vlorës (Municipality of Vlorë/Valona) |
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| Year | 1924 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in brown on a guilloche-patterned ground, with the issuing authority legend BASHKIA E VLORËS across the top. At left, an oval vignette bears a portrait impression, inscribed around its border with Ismail Qemal Vlora. The central inscription reads Frank NJË Kart, with the series letter and four-digit serial number above, and two manuscript signatures below identifying the Komisar i Bashkis and Arkëtari respectively. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown on a fine guilloche mesh, with three lines of Albanian text at the top stating the note is secured by the immovable property of the municipality. A large circular red underprint at centre carries the denomination Ft. 1 Kart. Flanking text indicates the note is payable on demand at left, and at right references the decision of the Municipal Council dated 11 May 1924, with an anti-counterfeiting warning across the lower margin. |
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Municipal emergency scrip from a port city that had been passed between Ottoman administration, Greek occupation, Italian forces, and finally Albanian sovereignty in the space of roughly a decade. By 1924 Vlorë's local economy was still fractured enough that the municipality issued its own fractional paper — the Albanian state was barely two years into its first republican government and central monetary infrastructure was threadbare.
The "Frank Kart" denomination signals a transitional moment: the Frank as unit predates the Lek reform of 1926, when Fan Noli's failed government and Ahmet Zogu's subsequent consolidation pushed through a proper national currency. This note did not survive that transition in circulation.