v42_0985 - ALBANIA - REPUBLIC Série de cinq monnaies en or et de trois en argent 1968

ALBANIA - REPUBLIC Série de cinq monnaies en or et de trois en argent 1968 MS

MONNAIES 42 (2010)
Starting price : 5 500.00 €
Estimate : 9 000.00 €
Realised price : 5 500.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 7 700.00 €

Type : Série de cinq monnaies en or et de trois en argent

Date: 1968

Quantity minted : 12.000

Metal : gold-silver

Edge : cannelée

Rarity : R3

Coments on the condition:

Des hairlines dans les champs, et des traces de manipulation. Les monnaies conservent la totalité de leur brillant d’origine

Predigree :

Ce coffret provient de MONNAIES 35 n° 883

Obverse

Reverse

Commentary

Or (titre de 900/1000) : 500 lekë (55,18 mm ; 98,75 gr), 200 lekë (45,11 mm ; 39,85 gr), 100 lekë (32,04 mm ; 19,63 gr), 50 lekë (25,97 mm ; 9,85 gr), 20 lekë (20,87 mm ; 4,06 gr)
Argent (titre de 1000/1000) : 25 lekë (60,14 mm ; 84,01 gr), 10 lekë (39,91 mm ; 33,31 gr), 5 lekë (30,32 mm ; 16,98 gr)
Les monnaies sont contenues dans un magnifique coffret marron accompagné de leur certificat d’authenticité portant le n° 589.

Historical background

ALBANIA - REPUBLIC

Under pressure from the United States in particular, the Treaty of Tirana, signed after the First World War in 1919, recognized the independence of Albania.. To protect itself from certain European states which planned to divide the country between its neighbors, Albania then sought Italian help and protection.. But, the influence of Italy continues to grow. A Muslim clan leader, Ahmed Bey Zogulli, became Prime Minister and was elected President of the Republic before being proclaimed king in 1928 under the name of Zog I.. He was overthrown in 1939 during the invasion of the country by Mussolini's Italy.. During the Second World War, a resistance movement, composed of nationalists and communists, is organized and gains importance after the purge of non-Stalinist militants. The Stalinist communist leader Enver Hoxha becomes President of a people's republic proclaimed in 1946 and installs himself, in fact, as dictator of the country. The policy he follows is initially Stalinist-inspired. He broke with Tito in 1948 when the latter distanced himself from the USSR, and in the same year had one of his ministers, Koçi Xoxe, executed, whom he considered too close to the Yugoslav dictator.. But the country moved away from Soviet influence in 1961, then aligned itself with China.