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100 Lekë
| Issuer | Banka e Shtetit Shqiptar |
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| Year | 1949-1957 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | BANKA E SHTETIT SHQIPTAR 100 NJË QINT LEKË I PAGUHEN PRURËSIT ME TË PARË 1957 (Translation: State Bank of Albania One Hundred Leke Payment to the bearer on demand 1957) |
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| Protection description | BSHSH within outlines, repeated. |
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Albania's postwar monetary system was rebuilt under direct Soviet guidance, and this note is a material record of that relationship. Goznak — the same Moscow facility that produced Soviet state currency — took on the printing contracts for several Eastern Bloc satellite states in the late 1940s, Albania among them. The arrangement was political as much as logistical.
The series ran across nearly a decade of issuance, an unusually long window that reflects the relative monetary stability Enver Hoxha's government maintained before the Sino-Soviet split began pulling Albanian economic policy in a different direction after 1960.