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5 Dinars
| Issuer | Central Bank of Libya |
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| Year | 2015 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The Ottoman Clock Tower of Tripoli rendered in intaglio dominates the right half of the note against a pink and grey guilloche underprint. The bank title in Arabic script — مصرف ليبيا المركزي — is inscribed at the top centre, with the denomination spelled out in Arabic calligraphy within a central ornamental medallion. A vertical blue security thread with demetalized shifting elements runs along the right margin, alongside the numeral 5 repeated vertically in red. |
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| Reverse lettering | مصرف ليبيا المركزي خمسة دنانير 5 |
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By 2015, Libya had two competing governments — the Tobruk-based House of Representatives (internationally recognized) and the Tripoli-based General National Congress — each claiming authority over the Central Bank. This note was issued during that institutional deadlock, when the bank's Tripoli headquarters was physically controlled by one faction while external printing contracts and foreign currency reserves were disputed by the other. Thomas De La Rue continued supplying notes to the recognized authority regardless.
The security specification is notably lean for a De La Rue production of this period — thread and watermark only, without the optically variable devices common to contemporaneous issues from the same printer.