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100 Lekë
| Issuer | Banka e Shtetit Shqiptar |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| Reference(s) | P#21 |
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| Obverse lettering | 100 BANKA E SHTETIT SHQIPTAR NJË QINT LEKË I PAGUHEN PRURËSIT ME TË PARË 1947 (Translation: Albanian State Bank Hundred Leke Payable to the bearer 1947) |
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| Reverse lettering | 100 BANKA E SHTETIT SHQIPTAR NJË QINT LEKË LIGJA DËNON ATA QË FABRIKOJNË DHE NDAJNË BILETA TË FALSIFIKUARA (Translation: Albanian State Bank Hundred Leke The Law punishes those who fabricate and share false banknotes.) |
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The Banka e Shtetit Shqiptar — the Albanian State Bank — was itself only established in 1945, replacing the Italian-era Banka Kombëtare e Shqipërisë that had operated under Fascist economic direction since 1925. This 1947 issue was among the earliest emissions from the new communist-aligned institution, printed as Albania under Enver Hoxha was severing its wartime dependence on Yugoslavia and consolidating a strictly centralized monetary apparatus.
The 1947 series was superseded relatively quickly by the lek reform of 1965, when currency was revalued at 10:1, rendering all earlier notes obsolete.