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1000 Leke
| Issuer | Banka e Shqipërisë |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Value | 1000 Lekë (1000 ALL) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANKA E SHQIPERISE NJEMIJE LEKE SKENDERBEU 1405-1468 |
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| Protection description | Skanderbeg's helmet visible when held to light; embedded security thread running vertically through the note. |
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| Comments |
Albania's 1994 series was the first major reissue after the country abandoned its isolationist monetary system following the collapse of communist rule in 1991. The Banka e Shqipërisë had been effectively paralyzed through the transition period, and this series marked a deliberate effort to establish credible paper currency in a country where informal dollarization and barter had partially filled the void.
The 1000 Lekë denomination is the highest in this series and was heavily implicated in the 1996–1997 pyramid scheme collapse — the worst financial crisis in Albanian history — when an estimated two-thirds of the population had invested savings into fraudulent funds. Notes of this denomination circulated intensively during that period, and survivors in genuinely uncirculated condition are harder to source than the catalog suggests.