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The obverse is printed in green and brown tones on a light guilloche underprint. A central vignette portrays the Roman ruins of Leptis Magna, rendered in intaglio with columns and arched stonework. The issuing authority inscription appears at the top centre within a decorative panel, flanked by ornate rosette medallions bearing the fractional denomination numeral at each corner, with the legal tender clause and governor's signature below the central text block. |
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The reverse is rendered in green tones on a peach and cream guilloche ground. The central vignette presents a view of the Assai al-Hamra (Red Castle) fortress in Tripoli, with date palms rising behind its crenellated walls and a coastal setting in the foreground. An ornate mosaic rosette in pastel blue and green occupies the lower centre beneath the English denomination inscription, with the Arabic caption قلعة مصراتة and the bilingual issuer title at the top. |
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Libya's 1984 series was issued under the authority of the Central Bank during the Gaddafi government's ongoing restructuring of the country's financial institutions — the same period in which the official name of the issuing bank had recently changed from the Bank of Libya, a shift that occasionally creates cataloging confusion between late 1970s and early 1980s issues. Thomas De La Rue's involvement here is unremarkable for the region; they held printing contracts across much of North and West Africa throughout this period.
The half-dinar denomination has historically seen heavy circulation in Libya, making clean examples of this issue harder to find than the higher values in the same series.