Hello everyone, im a banknote collector from Kosovo and i wanted to share with you the beautiful banknote of your country! I also wanted to ask you, what could you have bought with this one, what was it’s value back then?

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1. This is quite old. I’m a 90s kid and never saw an lm1 note. Only a coin. Lm1 was a lot of money (1.47 euros). Could get you many things back then. A bus fare was 5c, pastizz 10c, pies 50c. I think milk was lm1 or close

2. You would have most probably bought a week’s worth of groceries in 1970’s with an LM1

3. I have a stash of these that were left behind by a deceased relative.

4. That note was printed between 1973 and 1975 (second series). In the fourth series (1986) Lm1 notes were not printed and instead we had Lm1 coins.

5. 90s kid and I remember a Lm10 note lasted for days.

   “Bills” of the time were pastizzi, Twistees, Coke/Kinnie, etc…

6. I remember salary at Lm 23 per week. People could live of that and have a family. It was better for most

7. They are beautiful notes, almost makes me want to bring them back

   Then I remember the incompetence of the governance of this country and am happy the EU takes care of it 🤣

8. Back in the mid 90s you could get a pac of smokes, and a pint of larger and have enough change for a coke or the bus and still be left with a couple of cents.

9. Wow cool, don’t remember those. Thanks for sharing the picture.

   You could have bought a hundred pieces of chewing gum, 20 packets of Sunshine Snacks, and lots of coffees and teas. You could have gone around Malta with a Lira. Those are from my experience/memory.

   My older friends tell me that a Lira was enough for a night out. Small houses cost less than Lm 5,000 but the wages could have been anything from Lm 20 to Lm 100 monthly. My mum’s family rented a large house in Sliema. It only cost them Lm 12 yearly, that’s right…just Lm 12. It was further divided by the two family groups living upstairs and downstairs (same family).