5000 Livres barcoded, old font, large

The barcode on this note — still unusual for Lebanese currency at the time of issue — was part of Banque du Liban's push in the early 2000s to modernize serial tracking after the post-civil war redenomination left the central bank managing enormous volumes of high-denomination notes. BA International, the successor identity to the historic British American Bank Note Company, handled the job from its Canadian facilities; the firm had been printing for Lebanese authorities for years before its eventual wind-down in 2012.

The "old font, large" designation distinguishes this from later printings within the same P#79 family, where typeface adjustments and format tweaks created enough variation to matter to specialists.