Catalog
5 Dirhams
| Issuer | Central Bank of Libya |
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| Year | 1979 |
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| Value | 5 Dirhams (0.005 LYD) |
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| Obverse lettering | ١٣٩٩ ١٩٧٩ الجماهيرية العربية الليبية الشعبية الاشتراكية (Translation: 1399 1979 People`s Socialist Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Libya's 1979 coinage was issued under the Jamahiriya government, Gaddafi's self-described "state of the masses" declared just two years earlier in 1977. The brass-clad steel construction reflects a pragmatic cost-reduction shift common across North African monetary systems during the late 1970s, as rising commodity prices made solid copper-nickel alloys increasingly expensive to strike in volume.