Catalog
1/4 Pound
| Issuer | Libyan Currency Commission |
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| Year | 1951 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse description | Blue-tinted note with a central vignette of ancient Roman columns (Leptis Magna ruins) at left centre and a detailed palm tree vignette at right, both set against a pale yellow guilloche underprint. Arabic inscriptions occupy the upper and central registers, including the denomination in large Arabic script, with two manuscript signatures below. The serial number and prefix appear at lower right, and the fraction '1/4' is repeated in the upper left and lower left corners within ornate arabesque border frames. |
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| Obverse lettering | المملكة الليبية المتحدة هذه الأوراق النقدية عملة قانونية لدفع أي مبلغ ربع جنيه ليبى أصدرتها لجنة النقد الليبي بموجب القانون رقم ٤ الصادرة في ٢٣ مجرم ١٣٧١ في عهد الملك إدريس الأول عن لجنة النقد |
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Libya's Currency Commission was a transitional authority, established to issue a national currency ahead of formal independence in December 1951. The Commission itself had no permanent existence — it was dissolved once the Kingdom of Libya's own monetary institutions were in place, making this entire series short-lived by design.
The quarter pound denomination is the smallest in the 1951 series. De La Rue printed the full set, as they did for a number of newly independent states in this period whose own printing infrastructure didn't yet exist.