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1 Frank Kart
| Issuer | Municipality of Vlorë (Albanian notgeld) |
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| Year | 1924 |
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| Value | 1 Frank Kart (1) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in black on an orange dot-pattern underprint, framed by a decorative border of interlocking square motifs. The central text block is arranged in distinct horizontal registers, with the anti-counterfeiting warning set apart in a bold oval cartouche at the foot of the note. Perforation holes are visible along both vertical margins, likely used for cancellation or control purposes. |
| Reverse lettering | SIGUROHET ME PASUNIN'E PA TUNDËSHME TË BASHKISË PAGUHET ME T'U PARAQITUR Vendim i Këshillit të Bashkisë më 11 Maj 1924 FALSIFIKONJËSIT DËNOHEN PAS LIGJIT Shtype Vlora (Translation: Secured by the immovable property of the Municipality. Payable upon presentation. Decision of the City Council on May 11, 1924. Forgers will be punished according to the law. Vlora print.) |
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Albanian municipal notgeld is rare by any measure, and the Vlorë issue of 1924 is among the most locally produced examples anywhere in interwar Europe. Shtyp Vlora was a small commercial press, not a security printer — no intaglio, no watermarked paper, none of the anti-counterfeiting infrastructure that central bank issues relied on. The municipality issued these fractional notes to address a genuine coin shortage that was endemic across Albania in the early 1920s, when the country still lacked a functioning central bank. The Bank of Albania would not be established until 1925.
The "frank" denomination itself reflects the French monetary influence that persisted in Albanian commercial life well after Ottoman currency had been displaced.