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 Skender
| Issuer | Municipality of Korçë (Albanian notgeld) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 1 Skender |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | 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 | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | KATUNDARI' E KORÇÈS SKËNDER NJË 1 GJERGJ KASTRIOTI Kryekatundari Kasieri Në të ç'aqur paguhet |
| Reverse description | Printed in black and red over a green guilloche underprint, the border composed of repeating ornamental devices. A central circular red guilloche frame encloses a violet handstamp impression of a standing male figure in traditional Albanian dress. A manuscript date of issue appears below the central vignette, with partial issuer legends along the upper margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Korçë's 1921 municipal notgeld is one of the more obscure local emergency issues from the Balkans. Following the withdrawal of French occupation forces — who had administered the region since 1916 under the short-lived "Albanian Republic of Korçë" — the town's economy was left with a severe small-change shortage that the fledgling Albanian state was not yet equipped to address. Local authorities plugged the gap themselves.
The Skender denomination is named after Skanderbeg, the 15th-century Albanian national hero. A handful of Albanian municipalities issued similar scrip in this period; Korçë's issues are among the rarest, with very few examples documented in major collections.