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5 Lekë
| Issuer | Banka e Shtetit Shqiptar (Albanian State Bank) |
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| Year | 1964-1976 |
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| Reference(s) | P#35 |
| Obverse description | Central vignette of a truck parked along a riverbank at right, with a steam locomotive crossing a bridge over the river in the background, rendered in intaglio within a guilloche-bordered frame. The denomination numeral appears in each corner, with the bank title in the upper panel. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANKA E SHTETIT SHQIPTAR PESË LEKË I PAGUHEN PRURËSIT ME TË PARË (Translation: ALBANIAN STATE BANK FIVE LEKS PAID TO THE BEARING FIRST) |
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Albania's 1964 currency reform replaced the earlier lek at a 10:1 ratio, wiping out residual wartime-era money and consolidating the monetary system under the fully Stalinist economic model Hoxha had locked in place after the 1961 break with the Soviet Union. This note belongs to the series issued in the immediate aftermath of that split, when Albania pivoted sharply toward China for both political backing and, in practical terms, printing assistance.
The print run of just over 12 million is modest even for a low-denomination note in a small, largely self-contained economy with almost no external convertibility.