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10 Leke
| Issuer | Banka e Shtetit Shqiptar |
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| Year | 1964-1976 |
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| Value | 10 Lekë |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette in brown intaglio of a group of young professionals and students conversing before a modernist public building, with a separate group in traditional Albanian folk dress visible in the middle ground. To the right, an inset portrait of a bearded male figure — identified as the patriot-poet Naim Frashëri — is set within a green guilloche panel above the numeral '10' and the date '1976'. A colourful geometric folk-motif band in red, orange and green runs horizontally across the lower portion of the design, above the anti-counterfeiting legend. |
| Reverse lettering | BANKA E SHTETIT SHQIPTAR Dhjetë lekë LIGJA DËNON ATA QË FABRIKOJNË DHE NDAJNË BILETA TË FALLSIFIKUARA |
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The Banka e Shtetit Shqiptar — the Albanian State Bank — issued this series under the tightly controlled economic apparatus of Enver Hoxha's government, which had severed ties with the Soviet Union by 1961 and was by the mid-1960s pivoting toward a brief, fractious alignment with China. Currency design and production during this period reflected the regime's insistence on self-sufficiency and ideological purity, though Albania continued to rely on foreign printing facilities it rarely acknowledged openly.
The twelve-year span of this issue is notable — a single series running from 1964 to 1976 without redesign, consistent with a command economy that had little incentive to refresh circulating paper.