Catalog
1000 Lire
| Issuer | Military Authority in Tripolitania |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Currency | Lira |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in blue-violet on a dense guilloche underprint. At centre, the denomination ONE THOUSAND LIRE is set within an ornate panel flanked by scrollwork, with a large blank oval to the left reserved for the serial number area. To the right, a circular vignette displays a lion passant guardant atop a crown — the British Royal Arms symbol — enclosed within an oval frame. The serial number appears at upper right, with bilingual inscriptions in English and Arabic along the upper and lower margins. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1000 LIRE |
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Tripolitania fell to British forces in January 1943, and the Military Authority notes issued under that occupation were part of a broader Allied Military Currency program — the same framework that produced AM lira notes for mainland Italy and Sicily. The Tripolitanian series, however, was a short-lived parallel instrument, used while the territory's monetary future was still undecided.
At the 1000 Lire denomination, genuine circulation was limited. The territory's economy ran largely on lower values, and high-denomination AMC notes across all theaters tended to accumulate in fewer hands — traders, administrators, black market operators.