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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Stork, post: 3321066, member: 71642&quot;]Ha, I figured I&#039;d resurrect this thread again.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I was re-reading an email correspondence with a person where I mentioned told this story, but at one point in the last year or so I spent my time and my access to the online Numismatist and went through the every single one looking for a sale of the 1926 Zog bust 20 FrA.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Plenty of listings for Albanian coins and exactly ONE with the 1926 Zog bust Frieberg number.&nbsp; No photo and frankly by that point a typo seemed more likely.&nbsp; Especially as the price was the same as for the 1927, and IIRC it was a seller with ads in multiple issues and the listing was never repeated.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even the rare fasces minter&#039;s mark type Skanderbeg coin had some held back presumably by the mint or collectors when the rest were melted.&nbsp; 100 were produced, and 90 melted.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the same 1926 time frame there was a note bearing a single headed eagle and it was recalled/not released due to looking &#039;too Italian&#039; according to an Albanian bank translation.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Having no basis in reality, but the prominent fasces mark on the 1926 Skanderbeg coin was also pretty darn Italian and I have wondered if the first 100 (called &#039;trials&#039; in the translated book) were in fact so distasteful to the Albanians the dies were re-worked.&nbsp; Perhaps the entire Zog bust version had been made with the fasces minter&#039;s mark as well? And recalled as the note was? </p><p><br /></p><p>In any case, I still have yet to find one by rumor, photo, or sale.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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