1/4 Dinar

Libya's 2014 coinage was issued amid the country's post-Gaddafi political fracture, a period in which two competing governments were claiming legitimacy simultaneously. That the Central Bank managed to commission and distribute a new coin series at all during this period is itself notable.

Nordic gold — the copper-aluminum-zinc-tin alloy developed by Outokumpu — was chosen for its resistance to counterfeiting and its gold-like appearance without the cost, a combination that made it the dominant alloy for mid-denomination coinage across dozens of issuing authorities after its 1990s introduction.