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500 Lekë Chameria
| Issuer | Albania |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Diameter | 39 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central field depicts a naturalistically rendered eagle standing in profile facing left, its wings slightly raised, with its talons gripping a serpent on a ground line. The denomination 500 is inscribed in large numerals in the upper left field, with the currency designation LEKË above it. The date 2020 appears in the lower right field. The engraver's initials ВБ, for Vitaly Bakhtinov, are present in the lower right area of the field. |
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Chameria refers to a region of northwestern Greece historically inhabited by an Albanian-speaking Muslim population expelled by Greek nationalist forces in 1944–45. The issue of roughly 20,000 displaced persons remains one of the more politically charged unresolved disputes between Albania and Greece, and Albania has periodically raised it before international bodies without resolution. That a commemorative coin was struck on the subject in 2020 reflects the Albanian government's continued use of the Chameria question as an active diplomatic pressure point rather than a settled historical matter.