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100 000 Livres
| Issuer | Banque du Liban |
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| Year | 2011-2023 |
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| Printer | Crane Currency, United States (1801-date); Goznak (Гознак, Экспедиция заготовления государственных бумаг), Russia (1818-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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| Obverse lettering | مصرف لبنان ١٠٠,٠٠٠ مئة ألف ليرة بيروت في ١ أيلول سنة ٢٠٢٠ الحاكم نائب الحاكم الاول |
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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.