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20 000 Livres barcoded, new font
| Issuer | Banque du Liban |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Currency | Lebanese pound (1939-date) |
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| Obverse description | Red-brown and orange on multicolour guilloche underprint. The Arabic numeral ٢٠٬٠٠٠ is rendered in large intaglio figures at centre, flanked by geometric and floral guilloche panels. The bank name مصرف لبنان appears in an ornamental cartouche at top centre, with the denomination عشرون ألف ليرة inscribed along the lower margin; two signature facsimiles appear at lower right beneath their respective Arabic titles, and the date بيروت في ٢٢ تشرين الثاني سنة ٢٠٠٤ is printed at lower left. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANQUE DU LIBAN 20000 VINGT MILLE LIVRES LIBAN |
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| Comments |
The P#87 20,000 Livres was introduced as an updated version of the existing note, distinguished primarily by a revised typeface and the addition of a barcode strip — modifications made to bring Lebanon's highest circulating denomination in line with contemporary machine-reading requirements at banks and exchange houses. Harrison and Sons, who had maintained a long relationship with Banque du Liban, handled the reprint from their London facility.
The "Printed: 30.04.1945" date in the catalog data is almost certainly a placeholder or data entry error — Harrison and Sons as a banknote printer did not begin their significant Middle Eastern contract work until well after that date, and the note's design generation is firmly early 2000s.