Talk:Albanian lek

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Does anyone know more about the skender? Dove1950 19:10, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 22:01, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

The name Lek
The name "Lek" stands for Alexander in Albanian. Some "coin" experts believe this means "Alexander The Great" the national hero of Macedonia (a nearby and competing country) that fought against and conquered Albania in the 4th century BC. "Lord Alexander" also known as "Iskender Beg" and "Skanderbeg" was the national hero of Albania. Lord Alexander who's real name was Gjergj Kastrioti, led the resistance against the Turks during the 15th century and this was the only time Albania was independent from the 4th century BC until 1912 AD. Naming the Lek after Lord Alexander is a fitting tribute. Lord Alexanders portrait also appears on several Lek banknotes.Manlord II —Preceding unsigned comment added by Manlord II (talk • contribs) 21:12, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

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Move Request

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

No consensus to move. Vegaswikian (talk) 02:06, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Albanian lek → — Per MOS Lek should start with a capital letter. SulmuesLet's talk 01:32, 15 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Oppose. No other circulating currencies are capitalised.  —   AjaxSmack   21:28, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.


 * Wow a whole three comments, ge good consensus. Maybe leave it open a while as replies would be slow. Enlil Ninlil (talk) 02:13, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

In the past

 * 40 Paras = 1 Piastre
 * 100 Centimes = 1 Franc
 * 100 Qintar = 1 Franc
 * 100 Qindarka = 1 Lek Böri (talk) 09:56, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Actual Coin Construction
Can someone who understands the table better than I do please fix the materials? The current 1-20 leke coins are steel-based, as seen on the Central Bank of Albania web site:

http://www.bankofalbania.org/web/Albanian_coins_of_circulation_43_2.php

Note that most of the low-value coins show 2-3 different constructions, each corresponding to one of the dates of production. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.123.216.77 (talk) 15:30, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

"L" as the lek symbol?
I have not been able to find many instances of L. being used as the lek's sign outside of a couple of FOREX operators, Wikipedia, and some communist era postage stamps. The Bank of Albania's English website uses Lek (after the numerals, capitalised, without any Albanian grammar) as the currency symbol (when simply writing the name of a denomination in full their English website uses the full Albanian grammar). The stamps are also inconsistent, with some issues using Lek (capitalised with no Albanian grammar), some using L and more recent stamps using the full Albanian grammatical form. While I'm sure "L" is used to some extent (I am not Albanian so cannot speak with authority), it does not appear to be particularly common. I would suggest Lek or Lek. be added as a currency symbol, this would make writing out sums of currency in lek easier by not having to remember the Albanian grammar or using "L." which is used by multiple currencies, both in circulation and historical and could be confusing. "L" can be cited as a rarer form.TheCurrencyGuy (talk) 14:36, 19 June 2022 (UTC)


 * I don't know if L is used as an official sign or not, but what I can say is that the correct way of spelling is Lekë and not Lek.  Bes-ART Talk  07:47, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm using Lek an abbreviation/currency sign in the way the Bank of Albania uses it as the currency sign on the English version of their website. TheCurrencyGuy (talk) 17:45, 22 June 2022 (UTC)