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10 Lire
| Issuer | Military Authority in Tripolitania |
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| Year | 1943-1951 |
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| Reference(s) | P#M4 |
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| Obverse lettering | ١٠ ISSUED BY THE MILITARY AUTHORITY IN TRIPOLITANIA TEN LIRE 10 LIRE طبع بأمر السلطة العسكرية لطرابلس الغرب (Translation: 10) |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 LIRE |
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The Military Authority in Tripolitania was the British administration established over the former Italian colony following the North African campaign. These notes were issued as military currency to manage the local economy under occupation — a zone that remained under British control from 1943 until Libyan independence in 1951, which accounts for the unusually long validity window for a military issue.
The series draws directly from British Armed Forces and Military Authority printing conventions of the period, produced to circulate alongside, and eventually displace, the Italian colonial lira. Tripolitania's notes were not interchangeable with equivalent issues for Cyrenaica or the Fezzan, each zone having its own separate currency administration.