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| Uitgever | Military Authority in Tripolitania |
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| Jaar | 1943-1951 |
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| Valuta | Lira |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | The obverse is printed in purple and green, with the British Royal Arms vignette — a lion atop a crown — set within an ornate guilloche panel at left. The centre carries the bold letterpress inscription TEN LIRE within a decorative cartouche, flanked by the numeral 10 at upper right and lower left. The issuing authority legend appears at top in English and at the foot in Arabic script, with Arabic numeral denomination repeated in the corners. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | ١٠ ISSUED BY THE MILITARY AUTHORITY IN TRIPOLITANIA TEN LIRE 10 LIRE طبع بأمر السلطة العسكرية لطرابلس الغرب (Translation: 10) |
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The Military Authority in Tripolitania was the British administration established over the former Italian colony following the North African campaign. These notes were issued as military currency to manage the local economy under occupation — a zone that remained under British control from 1943 until Libyan independence in 1951, which accounts for the unusually long validity window for a military issue.
The series draws directly from British Armed Forces and Military Authority printing conventions of the period, produced to circulate alongside, and eventually displace, the Italian colonial lira. Tripolitania's notes were not interchangeable with equivalent issues for Cyrenaica or the Fezzan, each zone having its own separate currency administration.