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| 表面の説明 | Intaglio portrait vignette of King Idris I at left centre, wearing a traditional fez and military-style attire, printed in red on a light guilloche underprint. A tall date palm vignette occupies the right side of the note. The Arabic title of the Kingdom of Libya appears at the top in a cartouche, with the denomination in Arabic script and the dual calendar date (3 Rabi' al-Thani 1371 / 1st January 1952) in the centre field; the legal tender clause in Arabic runs along the lower portion. |
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| 裏面の銘文 | KINGDOM OF LIBYA FIVE PIASTRES THESE CURRENCY NOTES ARE LEGAL TENDER FOR THE PAYMENT OF ANY AMOUNT 1ST JANUARY 1952 |
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Libya's monetary system at independence in 1951 was a patchwork — the country had been administered in three separate territories under British and French control, each with its own currency arrangements. The Libyan pound, introduced in 1952 by the newly created National Bank of Libya, unified those arrangements for the first time. This 5 Piastres note was part of that inaugural issue, making it among the first paper currency issued under the Libyan state.
De La Rue's production for the series is characteristically clean, but the denomination itself had a short practical life — low-value fractional notes were quickly edged out by coin, and few of these saw extended circulation before being withdrawn.