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100 Lekë Albanian Railroads
| Issuer | Albania |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Value | 100 Lekë (100 ALL) |
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| Reverse description | Central field features a bold frontal view of a steam locomotive advancing along a receding railway track, with smoke billowing from the smokestack, rendered in high relief with finely engraved mechanical detail including the boiler, driving wheels, and coupling rods. A tunnel opening appears to the left, with the track converging toward the horizon. Six five-pointed stars are arranged symmetrically around the inner border at the cardinal and intermediate positions. The legend ALBANIA arcs across the upper border, while the denomination 100 LEKË curves along the lower border; the date 1988 is inscribed in the lower left field. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued under Enver Hoxha's isolationist government — or rather in the months immediately following his death in 1985, as the regime under Ramiz Alia cautiously maintained the same commemorative program — this piece celebrates a rail network that was itself a point of fierce national pride. Albania had no railways at all until 1947, making it the last country in Europe to build one, and the network was constructed almost entirely by voluntary youth labor brigades under ideological compulsion.
Gold commemoratives from this period were produced almost exclusively for foreign hard-currency export, never intended to circulate domestically.