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20 Skënder
| Issuer | Katundaria e Korçës (Inhabitants of Korçë/Coriza/Korytza) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Skënder (1921) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in green and carries two allegorical winged figures in flight, one at left and one at right, flanking a central oval vignette with an official stamp impression. The denomination '20' appears in large numerals at the upper left and upper right corners, with the inscription 'NJËZET SKENDER' running vertically along each lateral margin. Two manuscript signatures appear below the central vignette, and the date '9 NËNTOR 1921' and serial number are printed along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown and presents a central allegorical standing male figure on a pedestal with arms raised, flanked by two ornate arched niches each containing a bull's head at the base. The denomination '20 SKËNDER' is inscribed on rectangular panels within each arched niche at left and right. The motto 'PUNONI TE TRASHËGONI' is inscribed in a banner across the upper portion of the design, and two circular stamp impressions are visible overlapping the central composition. |
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One of the more obscure emergency issues in Balkan numismatics. Korçë had already lived through French occupation, a short-lived autonomous republic (1916–1920), and Greek administrative claims before this note appeared in 1921 — a period when the Albanian state existed on paper but had almost no functioning monetary infrastructure outside Tirana. Local communities in the south were essentially left to improvise.
The issuing authority translates roughly as "the commune of Korçë," and the denomination — skënder — was a proposed Albanian currency unit that never achieved national adoption. This note is among the very few physical artifacts of that failed monetary experiment at the municipal level.