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5 Dinars
| Issuer | Central Bank of Libya |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Value | 5 Dinars |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a panoramic vignette of the ancient Greek archaeological ruins of the Temple of Zeus at Cyrene, rendered in fine intaglio line work against a multicoloured guilloche background. Inscriptions in Arabic appear above and below the central vignette, with the denomination numeral and Arabic text framed by ornate geometric and floral underprint patterns characteristic of the series. |
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| Protection type | Security thread, Watermark |
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By 2015, Libya had two competing governments — the Tobruk-based House of Representatives (internationally recognized) and the Tripoli-based General National Congress — each claiming authority over the Central Bank. This note was issued during that institutional deadlock, when the bank's Tripoli headquarters was physically controlled by one faction while external printing contracts and foreign currency reserves were disputed by the other. Thomas De La Rue continued supplying notes to the recognized authority regardless.
The security specification is notably lean for a De La Rue production of this period — thread and watermark only, without the optically variable devices common to contemporaneous issues from the same printer.