10 Dinars

Thomas De La Rue printed several Libyan issues across the Gaddafi period, and this 1980 10 Dinar note falls squarely within the years when the regime was funneling oil revenues into military spending and pan-Arab ambitions while simultaneously redesigning its currency to shed any remaining monarchist or Western associations. The Central Bank of Libya had been restructured after the 1969 coup, and the note series of which this is part reflects the new political order without the royal cipher of Idris I.

The watermark is the sole listed security feature — relatively modest for a high-denomination note from a major Commonwealth printer in this period.