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1/4 Dinar
| Issuer | Central Bank of Libya |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Currency | Dinar (1971-date) |
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| Obverse description | Green and brown on multicolour underprint, with a complex guilloche border and ornamental corner rosettes bearing the fraction value 1/4. A vignette of Roman ruins with an arch and columns occupies the left centre, set against a fine lathe-work background. Arabic inscriptions of the issuing authority appear at top centre within a framed panel, with the denomination in Arabic script at centre and a manuscript signature below, flanked by serial number at lower left. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Libya's 1984 series marked the first time the Central Bank issued a quarter-dinar denomination as a circulating note rather than relying on coins for that value — a practical concession to the wear rate of low-denomination coinage in high-volume daily trade. Thomas De La Rue's involvement was a holdover from the pre-Gaddafi banking relationship; the regime had nationalized the banking sector by 1970 but continued using London printing contracts for technical reasons well into the 1980s.
The single watermark is the sole security feature, modest even by the standards of the period.