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10 000 Livres barcoded, new font
| Issuer | Banque du Liban |
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| Year | 2004-2008 |
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| Value | 10 000 Livres |
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| Obverse description | Yellow and orange multicolour note with an intricate guilloche underprint across the entire field, divided into a grid of decorative panels. The upper portion bears the bank title in Arabic script (مصرف لبنان) in green, flanked by large stylised numeral '10,000' in red and green at upper right. At left, a circular vignette with a cedar tree motif above a smaller Lebanese cedar emblem in a cartouche. Two manuscript signatures appear centrally, captioned in Arabic for the Governor and First Vice-Governor, with the date and place of issue in Arabic at lower left. The denomination عشرة آلاف ليرة (ten thousand livres) is inscribed in large red Arabic script across the lower portion, with '10,000' repeated in green at lower left. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANQUE DU LIBAN BANQUEDULIBANBANQUEDULIBANBANQUEDULIBANBANQUEDULIBAN 10000 DIX MILLE LIVRES |
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Lebanon's 10,000 Livres series underwent a quiet but deliberate technical refresh during this window, with the introduction of machine-readable barcodes and a revised typeface — changes driven by banking sector pressure to modernize authentication against a wave of sophisticated counterfeits that plagued Lebanese currency through the late 1990s and early 2000s. The barcode addition was unusual for the region at the time; most central banks in the Middle East were still relying on upgraded thread and watermark combinations alone.
Pick 86 is distinguished from its near-identical predecessors primarily by these two features, making date-range attribution the only reliable catalog differentiator without close examination of the font characteristics on the serial panel.