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Offline ElleKitty

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Albania
July 08, 2008, 08:23:56 AM
Digging about, I came across some lovely Albanian coins I wanted to share.  The first two are from Italian Occupied Albania during WWII, the third coin is just after and is one really lovely coin for being made of zinc.

1939 1 Lek coin, Rome mint.


1940 0.10 Lek coin, Rome mint.


An almost UNC zinc coin, 1949 1/2 Lek.

Do add this coin to my collection?
 
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Offline AdamL

Re: Albania
July 08, 2008, 10:28:33 AM
Very interesting.

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Offline Humpybong

Re: Albania
July 08, 2008, 10:42:46 AM

Very nice Miss Kitty.

I like the 1939 1 Lek coin from Italian Occupied Albania.

We must collect these (and Nazi Germany) coins so that future generations understand what happended in WWII.

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Re: Albania
July 08, 2008, 10:50:12 AM
Very nice coins, Ellekitty.

Thanks for sharing.


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Re: Albania
July 08, 2008, 12:59:27 PM
What strikes me about the 1 Lek is how forceful it looks. The helmet on the portrait of Emmanuel III is sure a bizarre touch. I see that Italy produced one coin with a helmeted portrait--a gold 20 Lire in '28.

 

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Re: Albania
July 08, 2008, 11:44:28 PM
Nice - especially the communist one. Finding communist Albanian paper money is easy; their coins are somewhat harder. I don't have any.  :'(

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Offline S.George

Re: Albania
July 09, 2008, 02:06:37 AM
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Nice coins Kitty!  It is hard to get  Zinc coins in this condition.

Hope to see more and more Kitty's collection

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Offline EgCollector

Re: Albania
July 09, 2008, 08:22:04 PM
Very Interesting
Thanks for sharing ElleKitty

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