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50 000 Livres
| Issuer | Banque du Liban |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Currency | Lebanese pound (1939-date) |
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| Obverse description | Cedar tree vignette at upper right, with a vertical holographic strip at left; stylized boats rendered in guilloche underprint occupy the centre-left and centre fields, with a stylized sun motif at upper right. |
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| Protection type | Holographic strip, Security thread, Watermark |
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| Comments |
Harrison and Sons printed Lebanese currency for decades, a relationship that outlasted the firm's absorption into De La Rue in 1997 — meaning notes bearing the Harrison imprint after that date were technically produced under De La Rue ownership, even if the name on the plate hadn't changed. This 2004 issue falls into that ambiguous period.
The 50,000 Livres denomination was introduced as the Lebanese pound recovered purchasing power slowly after the catastrophic hyperinflation of the civil war years, when the currency had lost roughly 90% of its value against the dollar. By 2004, dollarization remained so entrenched that high-denomination pound notes were often treated as near-novelties in daily commerce.