Catalog
20 000 Livres
| Issuer | Banque du Liban |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a bold guilloche underprint in pink and olive tones, with the word LIBAN rendered in large latent-image lettering across the centre field, overlaid on a repeating microtext pattern. The numeral 20000 appears in all four corners in red, and a Cedar tree vignette is positioned at the upper right within a decorative panel. A barcode and alphanumeric serial number are printed at the lower right, with the printer's imprint (GIESECKE & DEVRIENT) in small type below. |
| Reverse lettering | BANQUE DU LIBAN LIBAN VINGT MILLE LIVRES 20000 |
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The 20,000 Livres denomination was introduced as Lebanon worked to restore financial credibility after the catastrophic hyperinflation of the civil war years, during which the Lebanese Pound lost roughly 99% of its value between 1984 and 1992. By 2001, the rate had stabilized under Governor Riad Salamé's peg to the US dollar — a policy that would hold, with increasing strain, for nearly two decades before the 2019 collapse.
G&D's Leipzig facility has handled Banque du Liban output across multiple series. The barcode feature on this note was relatively uncommon in Middle Eastern issues of the period.