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5 Liri
| Issuer | Central Bank of Malta |
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| Year | 1989 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | A classical allegorical female figure personifying Malta stands in right profile on the right side of the note, draped in robes and resting on a shield, set against a blue and light green guilloche underprint. The bank title 'Bank Centrali ta' Malta' appears in large letters across the top, with the denomination '5' at upper right and 'Lm 5' at lower left. Flying doves and ornamental scroll vignettes flank the central field, with the serial number and the word 'GVERNATUR' (Governor) at lower centre. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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Malta's 1989 5 Liri belongs to the series introduced after the Central Bank Act of 1967 consolidated monetary authority away from the colonial-era Currency Board. De La Rue printed the entire series, a relationship Malta maintained for decades — unremarkable in itself, but worth noting because the plates were periodically updated without a change in Pick number, making plate-date attribution genuinely difficult on worn examples.
The embedded security thread on this issue is an early application of what De La Rue was then marketing aggressively to smaller central banks as a low-cost anti-counterfeiting upgrade.