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500 Livres
| Issuer | Banque du Liban |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Value | 500 Livres |
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| Obverse description | An aerial panoramic view of Beirut and its Mediterranean coastline forms the central vignette, rendered in fine intaglio engraving with the hillside cityscape receding into the background. The bank name in Arabic script runs along the upper guilloche border, with the denomination numeral in Arabic positioned at the upper right and lower left corners. Two signature panels occupy the lower right, flanked by ornamental guilloche rosettes against a geometric underprint throughout. |
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| Reverse lettering | Banque Du Liban Cinq Cents Livres ٥٠٠ ليرة |
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The Banque du Liban's 500 Livres series from the late 1980s was printed against a backdrop of catastrophic monetary collapse — between 1987 and 1992, the Lebanese pound lost roughly 99% of its value against the dollar, rendering notes of this denomination effectively worthless within months of issue. Thomas De La Rue continued producing the series in London throughout the civil war period, a logistical arrangement that says much about the state of domestic infrastructure.
A watermark remains the sole security feature — thin protection for a currency under that kind of pressure.