Evidence coverage: 1920–1947. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.
A documented account-unit or currency-system transition supports this predecessor identity; not admitted from a specimen or inherited label alone.
No distinct predecessor currency is established in the loaded view.
Municipal-note legislation imposes fines denominated in gold francs.
Sources and qualifications →Albania raised a1,500,000franc compulsory loan at5percent in1920; its bonds were accepted toward taxes and customs duties. This documents franc-denominated public obligations before national note issuance.
Sources and qualifications →The government decision of25June1921 based collection of state revenues on the gold franc; the existing profile therefore predates1923municipal notes.
Sources and qualifications →Calmés describes goldfranc as existing de facto currency and recommends codification. The16February1922paper-lek law was not implemented, so it does not create an additional circulating/accounting identity here.
Sources and qualifications →Keep de facto gold-franc reckoning and1925national codification in one existing profile; do not create a separate nationalbank currency merely from issue rights.
Sources and qualifications →Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.
Municipal-note legislation imposes fines denominated in gold francs.
C1543Albania raised a1,500,000franc compulsory loan at5percent in1920; its bonds were accepted toward taxes and customs duties. This documents franc-denominated public obligations before national note issuance.
C1768The government decision of25June1921 based collection of state revenues on the gold franc; the existing profile therefore predates1923municipal notes.
C1769Calmés describes goldfranc as existing de facto currency and recommends codification. The16February1922paper-lek law was not implemented, so it does not create an additional circulating/accounting identity here.
C1770Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
The July 1947 law replaced the Albanian frang with the lek as the monetary unit.
PDF p.3, paragraph on 1965 reform
Municipal-note legislation imposes fines denominated in gold francs.
Printed p53
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Albania raised a1,500,000franc compulsory loan at5percent in 1920; its bonds were accepted toward taxes and customs duties. This documents franc-denominated public obligations before national note issuance.
p22,VIII PublicFinances,Debts
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Read publicly exposed transcription, printed20–22.
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The government decision of25June1921 based collection of state revenues on the gold franc; the existing profile therefore predates1923municipal notes.
p119¶4,n9
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Those underlying books not independently read.
Calmés describes goldfranc as existing de facto currency and recommends codification. The16February1922paper-lek law was not implemented, so it does not create an additional circulating/accounting identity here.
pp20–21,VI Currency
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Read publicly exposed transcription, printed20–22.
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Keep de facto gold-franc reckoning and1925national codification in one existing profile; do not create a separate nationalbank currency merely from issue rights.
Calmésp22; Kadriap119; Pishapp355–357
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Read publicly exposed transcription, printed20–22.
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Calmésp22; Kadriap119; Pishapp355–357
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Those underlying books not independently read.
Calmésp22; Kadriap119; Pishapp355–357
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.