50 Dinars

Thomas De La Rue had been printing Libyan currency since the kingdom era, and this 2008 issue continues a relationship that survived the 1969 coup, the Jamahiriya's periodic flirtations with other printers, and decades of international sanctions that at various points complicated the logistics of sending finished notes from London to Tripoli.

The P#75 series appeared during the period when Libya was actively rehabilitating itself with Western governments following the 2003 renunciation of its weapons program and the subsequent lifting of U.S. and EU sanctions — a political thaw that made routine commercial printing contracts considerably easier to execute.