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50 Dinars
| Issuer | Central Bank of Libya |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Green-toned note with a central vignette of the Italian-era lighthouse tower in Benghazi (built 1922), rendered in intaglio against an intricate floral and arabesque underprint. The denomination "خمسون دينارا" (Fifty Dinars) is inscribed in large Arabic calligraphy at centre, with the bank name "مصرف ليبيا المركزي" across the top in Arabic script. A vertical security strip with optically variable silhouette portraits occupies the right margin, accompanied by a colour-shifting numeral "50" at lower left. |
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| Protection type | Security thread, Watermark, Optically variable ink |
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Libya's post-Gaddafi monetary institutions fractured badly after 2014, with two rival central banks — one in Tripoli, one in Benghazi — each claiming legitimacy and issuing currency. This 50 Dinars was produced by Goznak in Moscow, which found itself doing a brisk business supplying banknotes to both factions at various points during the civil conflict, a situation that generated considerable international criticism.
Goznak's involvement was not ideologically neutral. Russian state printing contracts in fractured North African states during this period carried obvious geopolitical weight. The security package — thread, watermark, OVI shift ink — is competent but unremarkable for the denomination.