Women on Albanian money

Every coin or banknote relays a piece of history. They narrate the told and untold stories of many events. On a very limited space, numbers, portraits, landscapes, letters, words, prayers and symbols are depicted, revealing a lot about a given era, a country or a personality. The featuring of women on the national currency reveals a lot about her role and qualities; fragility and force, misery and challenge, timidness and emancipation, yet little is presented about the triumph of the woman in the Albanian society.

From this perspective, the book aims to unfold all the dimensions of the woman reflected in the national currency, focusing on the period from Albania's independence to modern days. The book describes political, economic and cultural developments and the evolution of the central bank. These developments were reflected in the issues, denominations, place of print, design symbolic meaning and the illustrating messages of the national currency.