Albania 1926-R 5 qindar leku

Stephen Album sale 30, lot 1027

photo courtesy Stephen Album

This specimen was lot 1027 in Stephen Album sale 30 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2018), where it sold for $211.50. The catalog description^[1] noted, "ALBANIA: 5 qindar leku, 1926-R, lion's head, NGC graded MS66 RB." This type was struck at the Rome mint 1926 only for Albania.

Recorded mintage: 512,000.

Specification: bronze.

Catalog reference: KM-1.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• ^[1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 30, featuring the George Anderson Collection of Tibetan Coins, the Dr. John W. Lund Collection of Swedish Coins and the Mike Edwards Collection, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2018.

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