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1/4 Dinar
| Issuer | Central Bank of Libya |
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| Year | 2002 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Arch of Tiberius at Leptis Magna (Al Khums), one of the finest surviving Roman triumphal arches in North Africa, rendered in fine intaglio engraving. Denomination and issuer inscriptions appear in Arabic script, with guilloche underprint elements framing the composition. |
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| Reverse description | Vignette of a cluster of date palms in the foreground with the Murzuq Fortress (Fezzan region) in the middle ground, rendered in intaglio. Denomination numerals and Arabic inscriptions are positioned within a decorative guilloche border. |
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Libya's quarter-dinar denomination has always occupied an awkward place in the series — too small to matter much in daily commerce by the early 2000s, yet retained for reasons more administrative than practical. By 2002, inflation had eroded its real value to the point where the note functioned mainly as change in formal transactions. De La Rue's production is competent but unremarkable for the printer.
The watermark is the sole security feature — sparse even by the standards of low-denomination notes at that time, when most issuing banks were layering in security threads as a baseline.