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1/2 Pound
| Issuer | Kingdom of Libya |
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| Year | 1952 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of King Idris I in left medallion, facing right and wearing traditional dress, set against an ornate guilloche underprint in brown and red tones. Centre panel carries an elaborate Islamic geometric arabesque design with the denomination in Arabic script, flanked by a palm tree vignette at lower centre. Arabic legends appear at top and lower left, with the date in both Hijri and Gregorian calendars at lower left, and the serial number printed twice in Arabic and Western numerals. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Libya's first independent currency series, issued in 1952 after the country's emergence as a federal kingdom in December 1951 under King Idris I. Bradbury Wilkinson had an established relationship with newly independent and post-colonial governments during this period — their New Malden facility produced notes for dozens of emerging states, and this series was among the earlier commissions from a newly sovereign Arab nation.
The half-pound denomination was unusual for the region; most contemporary Arab currency systems did not issue fractional pound notes at this level, reflecting the particular demands of Libya's three-province federal structure and its predominantly rural, low-cash economy at the time of independence.