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1 Lek
| Issuer | Banka e Shtetit Shqiptar (State Bank of Albania) |
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| Year | 1965 |
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| Value | 1 Lek (1 ALK) |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 REPUBLIKA POPULLORE E SHQIPERISE E VLEFSHME VETËM PËR DYQANIN E SHITJES ME AR E VALUTE DORËZONI PARAQITËSIT MALLRA PËR VLEFTËN BUONA LEK 1 ME ÇMIMET E VEÇANTA TË SHKËMBIMIT ME VALUTË DREJTORI I PËRGJITHËSHËM DREJTORI I THESARIT BANKA E SHTETIT SHQIDTAR 1965 (Translation: People's Republic of Albania. Valid only for gold and currency shop. Give the currency value to the current currency voucher. 1 lek voucher. With special currency exchange rates. General director. Treasury director. State Bank of Albania.) |
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| Reverse lettering | BANKA E SHTETIT SHQIPTAR REPUBLIKA POPULLORE E SHQIPËRISË (Translation: State Bank of Albania. People's Republic of Albania.) |
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The 1965 Albanian lek series was issued under strict economic isolation — by this point Hoxha's government had broken with the Soviet Union and was deepening its alignment with China, which left the Albanian monetary system almost entirely cut off from Western financial infrastructure. These notes circulated in an economy where private trade was illegal and currency itself functioned more as a rationing instrument than a medium of exchange.
The series was printed in China, a direct consequence of that political realignment — one of the few concrete material traces of the Sino-Albanian relationship visible in everyday objects.