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100 Franka Ari
| Issuer | Banka Kombëtare e Shqipnis |
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| Year | 1939 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Red-brown note with an intricate guilloche frame and fine-line safety underprint throughout. A portrait vignette of King Zog I (Skanderbeg) appears at right, partially obscured by a black overprint stamp of a two-headed eagle; a central intaglio vignette presents a view of the Gomsiqe Bridge near Puka. Serial prefix and numbering printed in black, with bilingual legends in Albanian and Italian. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in red-brown and green, the reverse carries a large central intaglio landscape vignette of the River Drin valley near Shkodër (Scutari), with hills and scattered settlement rendered in fine engraved detail. To the left, an ornate green guilloche oval medallion bears the numeral 100, while a matching plain oval cartouche occupies the right. The denomination is set in a scrollwork panel at centre-bottom, with the numeral 100 repeated in the upper corners. |
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Issued in the same year Italy completed its military occupation of Albania, this note came from the newly reorganized Banka Kombëtare e Shqipnis — reconstituted under Italian oversight following King Zog's flight into exile in April 1939. Printing by the Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, Rome, was a deliberate administrative choice: the Albanian currency apparatus was being absorbed into the Italian colonial financial structure, and having the state printing institute in Rome produce the paper was part of that consolidation.
The 1939 series circulated through the Italian occupation and into the German-administered period after 1943, meaning surviving notes can show considerable wear accumulated across two distinct occupying regimes.