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10 Liri
| Issuer | Central Bank of Malta |
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| Year | 1989 |
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| Size | 159 × 73 mm |
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| Obverse description | A classical female personification of Malta stands at right in intaglio, draped in robes and holding a rudder, rendered in green and beige tones against a fine guilloche underprint. The Maltese Arms appear at upper left, flanked by the bank title 'Bank Ċentrali ta' Malta' along the top margin. The denomination 'GĦAXAR LIRI' is printed in large green letterpress at centre, with the serial number repeated at left and lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a large vignette of the '7th June 1919' monument at left, commemorating the Sette Giugno uprising. To the right, a reproduction of Gianni Vella's watercolour painting illustrates wounded civilians being carried into the Giovine Malta hall during the National Assembly meeting of 7 June 1919. The overall colour scheme is green and brown, with guilloche border work framing the composition. |
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The 1989 Malta 10 Liri belongs to the second major series issued after the Central Bank of Malta Act of 1968, which established the institution and gave it sole authority over note issuance — breaking from the Currency Note Act arrangement that had governed Maltese paper money since 1949. Thomas De La Rue had printed Maltese notes going back to the pre-independence period, and the relationship continued largely uninterrupted through successive redesigns.
The Lira was decimalized alongside independence-era reforms, with Malta adopting a 100-cents-to-the-Lira structure in 1972. This note predates the euro transition by nearly two decades — Malta adopted the euro on 1 January 2008, at which point the Lira was fixed at 0.4293 MTL per euro.