Catalog
10 000 Livres
| Issuer | Banque du Liban |
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| Year | 1993 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | مصرف لبنان عشرة آلاف ليرة بيروت في 19 كانون الثاني 1993 10000 |
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| Protection description | the cedar tree of Lebanon visible in the unprinted area; embedded security thread running vertically through the note. |
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| Comments |
The Banque du Liban introduced this denomination in 1993 against a backdrop of catastrophic wartime inflation — Lebanon's civil conflict, which had formally ended with the Taif Agreement in 1989, left the Lebanese pound in freefall through the early 1990s, and 10,000 livres, once an enormous sum, had become a routine transaction note within a very short time of its issue.
Thomas De La Rue's involvement as printer was a long-standing relationship with the Banque du Liban, predating the war years. The security specification here — watermark and thread only — is modest by the standards De La Rue was capable of at the time, likely reflecting cost constraints during Lebanon's fiscal reconstruction period.