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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;princeofwaldo, post: 1299411, member: 24091&quot;]Nice collection you have.&nbsp; I don&#039;t have the 1927 Albania Franga, otherwise have all the others that were struck for circulation.&nbsp; Hence no prova only issues like the 1928 Albania 2 Lek though I did win one once at auction an resold it.&nbsp; The Zog era gold collection is complete, --all of them-- with the exception of the fasces privy marked 20 Franga of which there are something like 10 known.&nbsp;&nbsp; I do believe there is an error in the Krause catalog however.&nbsp; They list a 1926 issue of the 20 Franga with Zog on it (not the common Skanderbeg issue) with a catalog value essentially identicle to the 1927 issue.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;ve never seen one in 20+ years and I am conviced the coin doesn&#039;t exist.&nbsp; Even the fasces privy mark coin shows-up at auction once a decade, yet this seemly common gold coin (according to Krause) is never, ever offered.&nbsp; If they were minted, I wonder if they were melted down.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the 100 Franga coins, far and away the most difficult to find in nice condition would be the 1926-Single Star.&nbsp;&nbsp; The easiest to find in nice condition would be the 1927 No Star.&nbsp;&nbsp; The commemorative 100 Frangas are expensive in any condtion, but all of them show-up in UNC occassionally.&nbsp;&nbsp; The nicest 1926-Single Star that I have seen graded something like MS62 from the looks of it.&nbsp; Was offered in an auction in Europe a few years ago.&nbsp; Nearly every other one I have seen has had problems, either rim bumps, or much more typically with nasty copper spoting or hairlines.&nbsp; Mine is an AU58.&nbsp; My 1938 Marriage 100 Franga is an AU55.&nbsp; All the rest are mint state.&nbsp; I have the 50 Franga in MS66, probably the finest known.&nbsp; 10 Franga in MS65 along with several of the commemorative 20 Frangas in MS65....&nbsp; All the others are between MS62 and MS64.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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