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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fred13, post: 2321365, member: 20688&quot;]Seattlite86 nailed it. Regarding the Socialist era, Albania still did not have the proper minting equipment to produce coins then. The primary reason is it didn&#039;t make sense to invest such a large amount of money to provide a nation of a bit more than a million with currency. This was again outsourced except now to the new nations with a vested interest in Albania; i.e members of the Warsaw Pact. The actual country that minted Albania&#039;s coins was Hungary. Then when Albania withdrew from the Warsaw Pact in the late 60&#039;s and burned relations with Russia they turned further East to China who in turn began producing the coins and is responsible in particular for all of the aluminum socialist Albanian coins such as the lovely examples Siberian Man posted above[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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