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1000 Lekë
| Issuer | Bank of Albania |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Value | 1000 Lekë (1000 ALL) |
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| Obverse description | At centre-left, a portrait vignette of Pjetër Bogdani (1625–1689), Albanian writer and clergyman, rendered after the frontispiece illustration from his work Çeta e profetëve (Cuneus Prophetarum), accompanied by a stylised solar symbol drawn from the same publication. Inscriptions identifying the issuing authority and denomination appear above and below the central design. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANKA E SHQIPERISE NJEMIJE LEKE (Translation: Bank of Albania, One Thousand lek) |
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Albania's 1990s banknote program was shaped partly by the chaos surrounding the 1992–1993 transition away from communist monetary controls and, more acutely, by the 1997 pyramid scheme collapse that wiped out an estimated $1.2 billion in savings and briefly dismantled the state itself. This note was issued the year before that crisis, into an economy still fragile from decades of total isolation under Hoxha.
De La Rue Giori handled production in Lausanne — a reasonable choice for a central bank with limited domestic printing infrastructure. The watermark-only security specification reflects the budget constraints of the period rather than any deliberate design philosophy.