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100 Franga
| Issuer | Banka e Shtetit Shqiptar |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Value | 100 Franga Ari = 500 Lek (500 ALK) |
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| Obverse description | Brown and green on multicolour underprint. Portrait of Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg at left, set against an intricate guilloche background. The note is unsigned, bearing the date 1 May 1945 and issued in the name of the Albanian State Bank. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANKA E SHTETIT SHQIPTAR FRANGA NJËQINT I PAGUHEN PRURËSIT ME TË PARË TIRANË, 1 MAJ, 1945 (Translation: Albanian State Bank Hundred Francs Payable to the bearer Tirana, May 1st., 1945) |
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This note was issued by the Albanian State Bank in 1945, a period of radical political transition — the communist Provisional Government under Enver Hoxha had taken power in late 1944, and the new administration needed an immediate circulating currency before any purpose-designed notes could be produced. The Bundesdruckerei plates were a wartime inheritance; Germany had printed Albanian currency during the occupation, and the same Berlin facility simply continued filling orders under new political arrangements.
The Reichsdruckerei had been renamed Bundesdruckerei by this point, though both names appear in references to this series depending on the source.