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50 Lekë Albanian Railroads
| Issuer | Albania |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Diameter | 65 mm |
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| Reverse description | Central field features a three-quarter frontal view of a steam locomotive with billowing smoke, emerging dramatically from a tunnel represented by the coin's die-cut aperture, with railway tracks receding into the lower left field. Five five-pointed stars flank the inner beaded border on either side. The surrounding legend ALBANIA arcs across the upper portion of the outer ring, with the date 1988 inscribed in the lower left of the inner field and the denomination 50 LEKË displayed along the lower arc of the outer ring. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Albania's railway network was built almost entirely through forced labor mobilization campaigns during the Hoxha dictatorship — the regime refused foreign loans on ideological grounds, so infrastructure was constructed by conscripted students, soldiers, and workers under the banner of "voluntary" brigades. The 1988 issue commemorates that system at a moment when the country was among the most isolated in the world, having severed ties with the Soviet Union in 1961 and China in 1978.
At 168 grams and 65 mm, this is a substantial proof striking intended entirely for the export collector market — virtually no commemorative silver of this period circulated within Albania itself.