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5000 Leke
| Issuer | Banka e Shqipërisë |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Currency | New lek (1965-date) |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
| Protection description | Skanderbeg's portrait visible when held to light; embedded security thread running vertically through the note. |
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Albania's first post-communist decade was financially catastrophic. The 5000 Lekë was issued in 1996, the same year pyramid scheme operators were pulling in an estimated $1.2 billion from ordinary Albanians — roughly half the country's GDP. When those schemes collapsed in early 1997, the resulting civil insurrection caused the government to fall and left over 2,000 people dead. Notes of this denomination were directly implicated in the speculative frenzy, as pyramid funds paid out in cash and fueled inflation pressures that made large-denomination paper suddenly very ordinary.
The security specification for this series is notably thin for its face value and period.