1/2 Dinar

Libya's bimetallic coinage program expanded significantly after the lifting of UN sanctions in 2003 and the subsequent normalization of relations with Western governments — the 2009 issues reflect a modernized Central Bank infrastructure operating under considerably less external pressure than it had faced through most of the 1990s. Muammar Gaddafi's government had long resisted conventional coinage reforms, making the relatively conventional bimetallic format here something of a quiet policy concession to international monetary norms.