Warm brown tones place Naim Frashëri at the centre of a post-socialist Albanian note shaped by literature, memory, and national renewal.

Design & Symbolism

Obverse

The obverse presents the portrait of Naim Frashëri beside an open book and a detailed Bank of Albania building rendered in optically variable ink. This security feature gives the central bank architecture a technical presence as well as a symbolic one, linking literary authority with the modern safeguards of a reformed monetary institution.

Reverse

The reverse turns toward Frashëri’s personal and literary world, with his birthplace, a fountain pen, and a sheet bearing a phrase from his poem. These elements move the design from portrait to written word, allowing the banknote to carry the atmosphere of Albanian Renaissance culture through domestic space, handwriting, and poetic memory.

Collector’s Insight

For collectors, this 200 Lekë note is a key post-socialist issue because its meaning is carried not only by Naim Frashëri and the Rilindja reference, but also by its De La Rue production and OVI security detail. After decades in which Albanian paper money had reflected socialist visual codes and foreign socialist printing links, this note places cultural renewal inside a Western-standard security framework.

Shipping & Guarantee

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Serial number and prefix may vary from the reference image.