Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
100 Lekë Peasant Girl, Reverse Trial
| Issuer | Albania |
|---|---|
| Year | 1969 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | New lek (1965-date) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | A bareheaded peasant girl shown in three-quarter view facing right, her right arm raised aloft holding a bunch of grapes suspended from a vine branch. She wears traditional Albanian folk dress with a headscarf. In the background, a stylised landscape featuring a tower or minaret and mountains is visible. The circular legend reads 'SHQIPERI · ALBANIA' along the upper arc, with the date '1969' in the exergue. Small olive or laurel sprigs flank the date at the base, and a beaded border runs along the coin's rim. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | MET. |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Albania's 1969 gold series was issued under Enver Hoxha's government as a hard-currency earner for the international collector market — not for domestic circulation. The country was by then in profound economic isolation, having broken with the Soviet Union in 1961 and pivoting briefly toward China. These pieces were produced for export revenue, a calculated contradiction from a regime that otherwise rejected Western financial systems entirely.
Reverse trials of this type are production-stage pieces struck to evaluate die quality or design approval before committing to full runs. Survivor populations are inherently small.