10 Dirhams

Libya's 1975 coinage was produced under the government of Muammar Gaddafi's socialist Jamahiriya state, just four years after the 1971 nationalization of foreign oil interests. The Central Bank had undergone a full restructuring following the 1969 coup, and this series marked one of the first fully domestically authorized decimal issues under the new order.

The copper-nickel clad steel construction reflects raw material cost pressures common across North African mints in the mid-1970s.