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100 000 Livres
| Issuer | Banque du Liban |
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| Year | 2011-2023 |
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| Currency | Lebanese pound (1939-date) |
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| Obverse description | Green and gold note with a geometric guilloche underprint throughout. The issuer's name in Arabic script (مصرف لبنان) is inscribed at upper right, while a large numeral vignette of "١٠٠,٠٠٠" appears at lower right. Three vertical holographic security strips lettered "BDL" run across the centre, flanked by a Cedar of Lebanon vignette at lower left, two facsimile signatures with their Arabic titles below, and an optically variable ink (OVI) element at upper right in a starburst frame; the date and place of issue appear at lower right in Arabic. |
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| Reverse description | Green and gold note with geometric guilloche underprint. The central vignette presents an intaglio-printed composition of a bunch of grapes, wheat ears, and a stylised grain sheaf arranged together, with a small Cedar of Lebanon below left. The denomination "100,000" appears in large numerals at each corner, with the issuer's name in French "BANQUE DU LIBAN" at top centre and "CENT MILLE LIVRES" at bottom centre; the serial number is printed twice, once in Eastern Arabic numerals at upper left and once in Latin alphanumerics at lower right. |
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The 100,000 Livres is the highest denomination in Lebanese circulation, introduced at a time when it represented roughly $66 — a figure that became darkly ironic after the 2019 financial collapse, when the lira lost more than 90% of its value against the dollar. Notes from later in this print run circulated in a country where ATMs dispensed stacks of them to approximate basic withdrawals, yet the purchasing power had evaporated entirely.
The dual-printer arrangement — Crane in the United States and Goznak in Russia — is unusual for a single denomination series and likely reflects supply pressures during the post-2019 period, when demand for physical banknotes surged as the banking system froze depositor access to accounts.