Issued to mark the 25th anniversary of Albania's liberation from Nazi German occupation in November 1944, this coin belongs to a commemorative series released under Enver Hoxha's isolationist regime at a moment when Albania had already broken with the Soviet Union and was deepening its alignment with Maoist China. The aluminium composition was a deliberate practical choice for low-denomination coinage during a period of severe economic austerity.
By 1969, Albania was the most ideologically rigid state in Europe, having withdrawn from the Warsaw Pact the previous year.
Issued to mark the 25th anniversary of Albania's liberation from Nazi German occupation in November 1944, this coin belongs to a commemorative series released under Enver Hoxha's isolationist regime at a moment when Albania had already broken with the Soviet Union and was deepening its alignment with Maoist China. The aluminium composition was a deliberate practical choice for low-denomination coinage during a period of severe economic austerity.
By 1969, Albania was the most ideologically rigid state in Europe, having withdrawn from the Warsaw Pact the previous year.