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5 Dinars
| Issuer | Central Bank of Libya |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Currency | Dinar (1971-date) |
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| Obverse description | A vignette of a standing dromedary camel with its calf occupies the centre-right of the note against a light guilloche underprint. Arabic inscriptions including the bank name and denomination in words appear to the left, with numeral "5" repeated in the upper-left and upper-right corners. A hexagonal ornamental motif and a signature of the Governor are printed in the lower-centre area. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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Printed by De La Rue's Gateshead facility, this note entered circulation in the immediate aftermath of the 2011 civil war that ended Muammar Gaddafi's four-decade rule. The Central Bank of Libya had maintained operations from Tripoli under the old regime while a rival central bank functioned out of Benghazi during the conflict — by 2012, reunifying the monetary system under a single issuing authority was as much a political act as an administrative one.
De La Rue had supplied Libyan currency for decades, so the return to that relationship signaled a deliberate continuity with pre-Gaddafi institutional norms rather than a break from them.