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10 Lekë
| Issuer | Banka e Shtetit Shqiptar |
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| Year | 1957 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | BANKA E SHTETIT SHQIPTAR DHJETË LEKË 24 MAJ 1944 I PAGUHEN PRURËSIT ME TË PARË 1957 |
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| Protection description | Watermark visible in the paper, typical of Albanian state banknote issues of the period. |
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The 1957 Albanian state bank series, of which this 10 Lekë is part, was issued under a monetary system that had already undergone one brutal redenomination in 1947 — a deliberate instrument of Hoxha's regime to wipe out accumulated private savings and tighten state control over the economy. The 1957 notes represented a stabilization of sorts, a managed currency in a country almost entirely severed from Western financial systems by that point.
Albanian notes of this period are frequently found with handling wear concentrated along the vertical center fold — a known characteristic of how they were stored in state wage packets.