50 Leke

Issuer	Banka e Shtetit Shqiptar (State Bank of Albania)
Year	1964-1976
Type	Standard circulation banknote
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Obverse description	Central vignette portrays a column of armed soldiers on parade marching left to right beneath the Albanian national flag, rendered in fine intaglio line work against a light guilloche underprint. To the upper right, a sculpted bust portrait of Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg in his characteristic crested helmet is set within the design. The denomination numeral "50" appears in an ornate guilloche cartouche at lower right, flanked by laurel-branch side borders, with star devices in each corner; the date 1976 is repeated at lower left and right.
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Reverse description	The central vignette presents an intaglio scene of a multi-storey apartment block under active construction, surrounded by scaffolding and tower cranes, symbolising socialist industrialisation. In the left foreground, crossed tools — a rifle and a pickaxe — are rendered in bold intaglio, emblematic of the unity of military defence and labour. To the right, a rectangular panel contains the Albanian state coat of arms surmounted by a red star above the denomination numeral "50" and the date 1976, set against a fine guilloche background; the denomination in cursive script occupies the lower central field.
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