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200 Leke
| Issuer | Banka e Shqiperise |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a vignette of the historic Naim Frashëri birthplace, a traditional Albanian stone house rendered in fine line engraving against a warm ochre and light-green guilloche background. To the left, a quill pen and an open manuscript with a handwritten inscription are depicted in intaglio, with two printed signatures and their titles appearing below. The issuer name and denomination numeral 200 are set in red intaglio lettering in the upper and lower right fields respectively. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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| Comments |
The 200 Lekë denomination was introduced as part of Albania's late-1990s and early-2000s effort to rationalize a banknote series that had been repeatedly disrupted — first by the communist-era monetary system, then by the catastrophic 1997 pyramid scheme collapse, which triggered a near-total breakdown of public trust in financial institutions and required the central bank to rebuild credibility almost from scratch.
The 2007 date places this note well into the post-crisis stabilization period. Security specifications for this series are modest by contemporary European standards — no hologram, no color-shifting ink.