Catalog
5 Liri
| Issuer | Central Bank of Malta |
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| Year | 1989 |
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| Size | 145 × 69 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Bank Ċentrali ta' Malta Din il-karta tal-flus hija valuta legali għal ĦAMES LIRI f`Malta u maħruġa bl-awtorità ta' l-Att ta' l-1967 tal-Bank Ċentrali ta' Malta (Translation: Central Bank of Malta This banknote is legal tender for Five Liri in Malta and issued with the authority of the Central Bank of Malta Act of 1967) |
| Reverse description | The Torri ta' l-Istandard (Flag Tower) of Mdina occupies the central vignette, rendered in an intaglio-style engraving against a multicolour guilloche background in blue and green tones. At upper left, an excerpt from the Declaration of Rights of the People of 1802 is inscribed in Italian within a decorative panel. The denomination 'ĦAMES LIRI' and the bank title appear in letterpress at the top of the note. |
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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.