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10 Liri
| Issuer | Central Bank of Malta |
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| Year | 1973 |
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| Value | 10 Pounds (10 MTL) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANK ĊENTRALI TA' MALTA Din il-karta tal-flus hija valuta legali għal GĦAXAR LIRI f`Malta u maħruġa bl-awtorità ta' l-Att ta' l-1967 tal-Bank Ċentrali ta' Malta (Translation: Central Bank of Malta, This banknote is legal tender for Ten Liri in Malta and issued with the authority of the Central Bank of Malta Act of 1967) |
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| Reverse lettering | CENTRAL BANK OF MALTA TEN POUNDS GRAND HARBOUR |
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Malta's Central Bank was established only in 1968, replacing the Currency Board that had issued notes under British authority. This 1973 note belongs to the bank's first independent series — a period when the institution was still finding its administrative footing, and note design choices were heavily influenced by continuity with the pre-independence aesthetic rather than any sharp break from it.
De La Rue's involvement here is unremarkable in itself; they printed much of Malta's paper across successive governments. What anchors the P#33 in collector interest is the relative brevity of the series run before the redesigned liri notes of the late 1970s superseded it.