Catalog
10 Dinars
| Issuer | Central Bank of Libya |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Value | 10 Dinars |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait vignette of Omar el-Mukhtar at centre right, rendered against an intricate guilloche underprint in green and gold tones. At upper left, a geometric Islamic lattice panel frames the denomination numeral 10, while a holographic security patch at right bears repeated numerals and camel motifs. The governor's manuscript signature appears at lower centre beneath the Arabic denomination legend. |
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| Reverse lettering | الجماهرية العربية الليبية الشعبية الاشتراكية العظمى مصرف ليبيا المركزي عشرة دنانير 10 (Translation: Great Socialist Arab People's Republic of Libya Central Bank of Libya Ten Dinars) |
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De La Rue's Basingstoke facility printed this note during a period when the Gaddafi government was cautiously modernizing Libya's currency infrastructure — the hologram strip was a relatively new addition to the series, introduced partly in response to documented counterfeiting of earlier issues. The security thread runs vertically and shifts color under UV, a specification De La Rue had by then standardized across several North African contracts.
P#73 is the second major design revision for the 10 Dinar denomination under the Central Bank rather than the earlier National Bank structure, which was reorganized following the 1969 coup.