Libya new signature 5-dinar note (B551b) confirmed
2025-05-01
Like B551a, but new signature (Naji Mohammed Issa Belqasem). Intro: 27.03.2025. Courtesy of Alex Zlotin and Dennis Zammit.Read More…
Libya new 20-dinar polymer note (B553a) confirmed introduced 24.03.2025
2025-04-21
B553 (PNL): 20 dinars (US$4)Tan, brown, and red. Front: Arabic text; crescent moon and star as registration device; school in Ghadames; star and crescent moon as gold SPARK. Back: English text; crescent moon and star as gold SPARK; Al-Ateeq mosque in Oujlah; crescent moon and star as registration device. HolographicRead More…
Libya new signature 10-dinar note (B545b) confirmed
2025-04-08
Like B545a, but new signature (Naji Mohammed Issa Belqasem) and 4-mm wide PUREIMAGE windowed security thread. Courtesy of Alex Zlotin and Andrew Roberts.Read More…
Libya new 5-dinar commemorative note (B551a) confirmed
2021-02-15
Like B544a, but printed on polymer. Courtesy of Don Ludwig, Stane Štraus (www.polymernotes.org), Claudio Marana, and gncnumismatics on eBay.Read More…
Malta seizes Russian-printed Libyan notes
2020-06-03
According to a United States Department of State press statement dated 29 May 2020, “The United States commends the Government of the Republic of Malta’s announcement May 26 of its seizure of $1.1 billion of counterfeit Libyan currency printed by Joint Stock Company Goznak—a Russian state-owned company—and ordered by anRead More…
Libya new 1-dinar revolution commemorative note (B550a) confirmed
2019-03-12
According to a press release dated 18 February 2019, the Central Bank of Libya has introduced a new polymer 1-dinar note (B550a) to commemorate the 8th anniversary of the revolution. The note is printed by De La Rue on its Safeguard substrate. Courtesy of Thomas Augustsson.Read More…
Libya new “Russian” 20-dinar note (B548a) confirmed
2016-10-16
Like B544, but different security features, watermarks, and the serial number at right front is horizontal, not vertical, and neither serial number has ascending size digits. Courtesy of Hartmut Fraunhoffer (Banknote-Online). Read More…
Libya’s rival currencies reportedly will circulate in parallel
2016-05-27
The latest reports out of Libya indicate that the Presidency Council of the United Nations-backed Government of National Accord has reversed its previous rejection of the new banknotes which were printed in Russia for the Thinni government in Beida. Although similar in design and size to the existing notes issuedRead More…
Libya new competing 20- and 50-dinar notes reported for introduction on 01.06.2016
2016-05-25
,,, According to an article in The Libya Observer dated 25 May 2016, the eastern Central Bank of Libya (based in the city of Bayda, not the capital Tripoli) plans to introduce new 20- and 50-dinar notes on 1 June 2016. 4-billion dinars worth of new notes were reportedly printedRead More…
Libya may soon have competing dinars issued by two different banks
2016-05-22
,,, These images are reportedly of the dinar notes intended for the bank in eastern Libya. According to an article in The Guardian dated 20 May 2016, there are reports that Libya’s unity government may be undermined by the introduction of two different sets of new dinar notes from competingRead More…