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10 Lek
| Issuer | Banka Kombëtare e Shqipnis |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Currency | Lek (1926-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANKA KOMBËTARE E SHQIPNIS BANCA NAZIONALE D'ALBANIA 10 LEK SHQIPTAR ME TË PAMË TË PAGUESHME PRUSIT KRYETARI IL PRESIDENTE PAGABILI A VISTA AL PORTATORE KËSHILLTARI DELEGAT IL CONSIGLIERE DELEGATO OFFICINA DELLA BANCA D'ITALIA – ROMA |
| Reverse description | Printed in blue and yellow, the reverse is divided into three vertical panels by guilloche framework. The left panel carries a heraldic vignette of the Albanian crowned double-headed eagle coat of arms in yellow, accompanied by a bilingual anti-counterfeiting warning in Albanian. The wide central panel features an elaborate wreath-bordered circular blank medallion above the large numeral '10', set against a finely engraved guilloche background. The right panel displays an intaglio portrait of a woman in profile, with a corresponding Italian anti-counterfeiting warning below. |
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Printed by the Officina della Banca d'Italia in Rome, this note was issued by Albania's National Bank under conditions of extreme political flux — 1945 placed the country mid-transition between wartime occupation and Enver Hoxha's consolidating communist government. The bank itself would be dissolved and replaced within a few years as the new regime restructured Albania's financial institutions entirely.
The Italian connection is not incidental. Albanian banknote production had run through Rome since the interwar period, and even as the political relationship between the two countries collapsed following Italy's 1943 armistice, the printing infrastructure remained the practical option. This series was among the last to use that arrangement before Albania's monetary system was reorganized under the 1947 lek reform.