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10 000 Livres barcoded, new font
| Issuer | Banque du Liban |
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| Year | 2004-2008 |
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| Value | 10 000 Livres |
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| Reverse description | Yellow and orange multicolour note with a guilloche-patterned border and geometric underprint. The central vignette presents the Martyrs' Monument of Beirut — a group sculpture of allegorical figures atop a rocky plinth — set against a stylised landscape with mountain silhouettes rendered in fine line engraving. The bank title BANQUE DU LIBAN appears in large green letters at the top centre, with a microprint repetition of the bank name running below it as a security band. Denominator numerals '10000' are printed in bold red and green at all four corners, with DIX MILLE LIVRES inscribed in red along the bottom. A barcode with an alphanumeric serial number is printed at lower right, accompanied by an architectural vignette panel at the far right margin. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread, Barcode |
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Lebanon's 10,000 Livres series underwent a quiet but deliberate technical refresh during this window, with the introduction of machine-readable barcodes and a revised typeface — changes driven by banking sector pressure to modernize authentication against a wave of sophisticated counterfeits that plagued Lebanese currency through the late 1990s and early 2000s. The barcode addition was unusual for the region at the time; most central banks in the Middle East were still relying on upgraded thread and watermark combinations alone.
Pick 86 is distinguished from its near-identical predecessors primarily by these two features, making date-range attribution the only reliable catalog differentiator without close examination of the font characteristics on the serial panel.