2 Milliemes - Idris I

Libya's first independent coinage, issued in 1952, came just months after the country achieved independence in December 1951 — the first nation to gain independence through a United Nations resolution. Idris I, formerly the Emir of Cyrenaica, became king of a federal state that had been administratively divided between a British-supervised north and a French-supervised Fezzan only recently unified on paper.

The bronze millieme series was produced at the Royal Mint in London under contract.