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20 Lekë Ancient Art
| Issuer | Bank of Albania |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Currency | New lek (1965-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Albania's shift to Nordic gold for its circulation coinage in the late 1990s and early 2000s coincided with a period of acute institutional rebuilding following the 1997 collapse of the pyramid scheme networks that destabilized the entire economy and briefly plunged the country into armed civil disorder. The "Ancient Art" series was part of a broader effort to anchor the new coinage program in pre-Ottoman Illyrian heritage rather than the socialist iconography that had dominated Albanian material culture for decades.
KM#87 is one of several denominations in the series sharing the Nordic gold alloy, chosen partly for its resistance to corrosion and its distinctive warm tone.