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50 Dinars
| Issuer | Central Bank of Libya |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Currency | East Libya - Dinar (2016-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | مصرف ليبيا المركزي هذه الأوراق النقدية صالحة بمصالحة قانونية لسداد أي مبلغ خمسون ديناراً صدرت بموجب القانون عن مصرف ليبيا المركزي المحافظ 50 |
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| Reverse lettering | CENTRAL BANK OF LIBYA FIFTY DINARS 50 |
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Libya's post-Gaddafi monetary institutions fractured badly after 2014, with two rival central banks — one in Tripoli, one in Benghazi — each claiming legitimacy and issuing currency. This 50 Dinars was produced by Goznak in Moscow, which found itself doing a brisk business supplying banknotes to both factions at various points during the civil conflict, a situation that generated considerable international criticism.
Goznak's involvement was not ideologically neutral. Russian state printing contracts in fractured North African states during this period carried obvious geopolitical weight. The security package — thread, watermark, OVI shift ink — is competent but unremarkable for the denomination.