Libya's 1965 coinage was struck just four years before Muammar Gaddafi's coup ended the Senussi monarchy entirely. King Idris I, then in his mid-seventies and increasingly governing from Tobruk rather than Tripoli, would never see a subsequent issue — the 1965 series proved to be the final coinage of the kingdom.
Libya's 1965 coinage was struck just four years before Muammar Gaddafi's coup ended the Senussi monarchy entirely. King Idris I, then in his mid-seventies and increasingly governing from Tobruk rather than Tripoli, would never see a subsequent issue — the 1965 series proved to be the final coinage of the kingdom.