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0.50 Lire Italiane Berat
| Issuer | Dhoma Tregetare e Beratit (Berat Chamber of Commerce) |
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| Year | 1924 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 0,50 GJYSMË Lirë Italiane Arkëtari Kryetari |
| Reverse description | The issuer's name 'DHOMA TREGETARE E BERATIT' is printed in bold red letters across the top of the note above a guilloche-patterned ground. A dotted rectangular cartouche at centre encloses the denomination '0,50' in stylised red numerals flanked by the words 'LIRË' and 'ITALIANE'. At the lower portion, a handwritten serial number prefixed 'No.' appears at the left, while the payment clause 'Me të çfaqur paguhet Maj 1924' is printed at the right. |
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Albanian Chamber of Commerce emergency notes from the early 1920s are among the rarest locally-produced fiscal paper in the Balkans. Berat's chamber issued this fractional note during a period when Albania's monetary system was still unresolved — the country had no central bank until 1925 and no stable national currency, leaving provincial commercial bodies to fill the gap with their own fiduciary instruments.
The printer, Satyp. Dhori Koti in Korçë, was a small Albanian typographic press, not a specialist security printer. The technical limitations show in surviving examples.