Catalog
10 Pounds (2nd issue)
| Issuer | Bank of Libya |
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| Year | 1963 |
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| Reference(s) | P#32 |
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| Obverse lettering | بنك ليبيا عشرة جنيهات ليبية هذه الأوراق المالية صك قانوني للسداد أي مبلغ أصدرت باسم الملك إدريس الأول من قبل بنك ليبيا وفق القانون رقم 4 الصادر في 5 رمضان 1382 هـ المحافظ جنيه |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in the same purple-grey palette and mirrors the architectural composition of the obverse, with three large Moorish arched panels filled with dense geometric guilloche and stylised floral underprint. The English legal tender inscriptions are set within a central cartouche framed by columns, with the large denomination text "TEN LIBYAN POUNDS" in bold letterpress at centre. The denomination "£10" appears in all four corners against the ornamental border. |
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Libya's second banknote series followed quickly after independence, with Bradbury Wilkinson producing the notes at their New Malden works — the same facility responsible for currency contracts across much of the postcolonial world in this period. The Bank of Libya itself had only been established in 1956, replacing the National Bank of Libya as the country's central monetary authority.
The P#32 carries a simple watermark as its sole security feature, reflecting the relatively modest anti-counterfeiting standards common to many African and Middle Eastern issues of the early 1960s before the wider adoption of security threads.