Albania, Peoples’ Socialist Republic, Proof gold 100-Lekë, 1988, for the 42nd Anniversary of the First Railway (KM 63). Brilliant mint state (£80-100)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of the Coins of Albania.

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One of the achievements of the post-war Communist government in Albania — and despite its Stalinist character there were some — was to construct a small railway network. The first railway linked the capital Tirana to the port of Durrës.