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500 Franga
| Issuer | Banka e Shtetit Shqiptar |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Reference(s) | P#18 |
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| Obverse lettering | BANKA E SHTETIT SHQIPTAR PESË QINT FRANGA I PAGUHEN PRURËSIT ME TË PARË TIRANË, 1 MAJ, 1945 (Translation: Albanian State Bank Five Hundred Francs Payable to the bearer Tirana, May 1st., 1945) |
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| Reverse lettering | BANKA E SHTETIT SHQIPTAR PESË QINT FRANGA LIGJA DËNON ATA QË FABRIKOJNË DHE NDAJNË BILETA TË FALSIFIKUARA (Translation: Albanian State Bank Five Hundred Francs The Law punishes those who fabricate and share false banknotes.) |
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The Banka e Shtetit Shqiptar — the Albanian State Bank — was established in 1945 under the new communist government that consolidated power after the German withdrawal. This 500 Franga issue is one of the first notes of that institution, printed by the Reichsdruckerei in Berlin, which by 1945 had been operating under Soviet-occupied East Berlin and would soon be reorganized as the Bundesdruckerei. The logistics of sourcing printing from a press in a divided, devastated city in the immediate postwar period make the production of this series a minor curiosity in itself.
The franga as a currency unit was abolished shortly after — Albania adopted the lek as its sole denomination in 1947, rendering this issue obsolete within two years of printing.