Catalog
20 Dinars Series 2, polymer
| Issuer | Central Bank of Libya |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Red and orange tones over a multicolor underprint, with Arabic inscriptions of the issuing authority and denomination. A vignette of the school in Ghadames occupies the central field, flanked by a crescent moon and star serving as a registration device. Security elements include a holographic stripe with SPOTLIGHT, PUREIMAGE, and DEPTH effects incorporating the portrait of Omar Mukhtar, a gold SPARK element in the form of a star and crescent, and a simulated solid security thread with demetalized numeral 20. |
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| Obverse lettering | مصرف ليبيا المركزي هذه الأوراق النقدية قانونية لأي مبلغ عشرون دينارًا صادرة بموجب قانون من مصرف ليبيا المركزي (Translation: Central Bank of Libya These banknotes are legal tender for any amount Twenty Dinars Issued by Law by the Central Bank of Libya) |
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Libya's divided monetary authority — two rival central banks, one in Tripoli and one in Benghazi, issuing competing series for years — makes any new unified note politically significant. Whether this 2025 emission signals coordinated issuance or simply one institution moving ahead is worth verifying against current CBL documentation before attribution.
De La Rue's Safeguard™ substrate is the same polymer platform used in recent issues for several African central banks, with the SPARK element providing the optically variable ink effect typical of their higher-security tiers. P#87 places this as the second polymer series, Libya's earlier polymer experiment having met mixed public acceptance.