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10 000 Livres
| Issuer | Banque du Liban |
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| Year | 2012-2021 |
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| Currency | Lebanese pound (1939-date) |
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| Reverse description | Yellow, orange, and green multicolour note sharing the same guilloche panel design as the obverse. The central vignette presents the Martyrs' Monument in Beirut, rendered in intaglio in brown and green tones, set against a backdrop of stylised cedar trees. The issuing authority name in French — BANQUE DU LIBAN — runs in bold letterpress across the top, with the denomination DIX MILLE LIVRES at the bottom centre; numeral values of 10,000 appear in red and olive green at all four corners. |
| Reverse lettering | BANQUE DU LIBAN DIX MILLE LIVRES (Translation: Bank of Lebanon Ten Thousand Pounds) |
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The Banque du Liban's 10,000 Livres series ran through a decade of relative monetary stability before Lebanon's financial system collapsed in late 2019. At the official peg of 1,507.5 pounds to the dollar — maintained since 1997 — this note was worth roughly $6.60 at issue. By 2021, the informal exchange rate had pushed its real purchasing power below twenty cents.
Oberthur Fiduciaire produced the series with modest security — watermark and thread only, which proved adequate when counterfeiting was the primary concern but irrelevant once the crisis made hoarding foreign currency the national preoccupation. The 2021 date marks the final year of this pick number before redesign pressure mounted.