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35-596: It was introduced in September 1971 and replaced the pound at par. The currency was pegged to the special drawing rights at a rate of 2.80 SDRs per dinar. In 1972, the Libyan Arab Foreign Bank was established to deal with overseas investment. In February 1973, the dinar was pegged to the US dollar at a rate of 0.29679 dinar per dollar (LD 1 = US$ 3.37), which was maintained until 1986. The peg

70-524: A California based company that was a large provider of electronic voting systems in the United States, from Jefferson Smurfit plc for $ 23 million. Following the Panama Papers leak, it was revealed that from 2002 until 2010, De La Rue had secretly contracted New Delhi businessman Somendra Khosla to obtain contracts in exchange for a 15% commission. In 2003, the company acquired

105-527: A LD 1 coin, which was printed and coined by Goznak in Russia . They were issued in response to a shortage of cash in the eastern half of the country, reflecting the disunity of Libya that has two rival governments in the east and west. Libyan pound The Libyan pound ( Arabic جنيه, junieh ; sign : £L) was the currency of Libya between 1951 and 1971. It was divided into 100 piastres (قرش, qirsh ) and 1000 milliemes (مليم). When Libya

140-514: A public uproar, Leader Muammar Gaddafi announced on June 11 that although the seized money would not be confiscated or invested without full consultation with the 167 local "People's Congresses" in Libya. Notes of LD 20 were added in 2002. On August 27, 2008, the Central Bank of Libya announced a new LD 50 note and that was scheduled to enter circulation on August 31, 2008. The note

175-698: Is a British company headquartered in Basingstoke , England , that produces secure digital and physical protections for goods, trade, and identities in 140 countries. It sells to governments, central banks, and businesses. Its authentication division provides government revenue technology , brand protection , and ID security, such as polycarbonate data pages for passports. Its currency division designs and produces banknotes , secure polymer substrate and banknote security features. This includes security holograms , security threads and security printed products for central banks and currency issuing authorities. It

210-642: Is chaired by Clive Wiley. Its non-executive board members are Nick Bray, Mark Hoad and Brian Small. In 1843, De La Rue's designs for playing cards are the basis for the modern standard design. The playing card business was sold to John Waddington in 1969. The company has also printed postage stamps for the United Kingdom and some of its colonies, for Italy and for the Confederate States of America. The Cape of Good Hope triangulars were also printed by De La Rue & Co. De La Rue developed

245-571: Is listed on the London Stock Exchange . It is the world's largest commercial printer of banknotes. The company was founded by Thomas de la Rue , who moved from Guernsey to London in 1821 and set up in business as a Leghorn straw hat maker, then as a stationer and printer. In 1831 he secured a Royal Warrant for his business to produce playing cards. In 1855 it started printing postage stamps and in 1860 banknotes. The company's first banknotes were made for Mauritius . In 1896,

280-537: The Debden based banknote printing operations of the Bank of England . In 2003 and 2004 the company supplied banknotes to Iraq. The company was recognised by Hermann Simon as a role model for other small- to medium-sized businesses in his book Hidden Champions . The Highest Perfection, a history of De La Rue was published in 2011. Written by Peter Pugh for De La Rue, it covered the years 1712–2003. In August 2014,

315-629: The National Transitional Council to pay the salaries of public servants and government employees. The bank is holding a contest for redesigned banknotes that will likely eventually replace the Gaddafi-emblazoned notes. The central Bank started withdrawing the LD ;50 note on January 14, 2012. Libyans have until March 15 to hand the note in to banks. Issam Buajila, the media manager of the central bank said that

350-417: The exchange rate of Libyan dinar would be pegged to special drawing rights for one to three years, according to an interview to Reuters on 27 December 2011. On 3 January 2021, the dinar was devalued to US$ 1 = LD 4.48 for all transactions following exchange rate unification, closing the gap between the official and black market exchange rates. Until 1975, old coins denominated in milliemes (equal to

385-670: The 1960s. In 1995, the company acquired Portals Limited which had been listed on the London stock market since 1904. For almost 300 years Portals had been one of the leading banknote paper manufacturers in the world, having manufactured banknote paper for the Bank of England since 1724. In 1997, De La Rue acquired Harrison and Sons , the stamp and banknote printers based in High Wycombe . The factory closed permanently in 2003. In early 2002, De La Rue purchased Sequoia Voting Systems ,

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420-610: The British mandate. In 1951, the pound was introduced, replacing the franc and lira at rates of £L1 = 480 lire = 980 francs and was equal in value to one pound sterling . While sterling was devalued in 1967, the Libyan pound did not follow suit, so one Libyan pound became worth £1 3s. 4d. sterling. The Libyan pound was replaced by the dinar at par in 1971 following the Libyan Revolution of 1969. The Libyan pound

455-582: The Central Bank of Libya issued LD  1 ⁄ 4 and LD  1 ⁄ 2 coins and 50 Dhs. and 100 Dhs. coins. In 1971, banknotes were introduced in denominations of LD  1 ⁄ 4 , LD  1 ⁄ 2 , LD 1, LD 5 and LD 10. On May 15, 1980, new banknotes were issued for the LD 5 and LD 10 denominations (worth, at the time, £7  stg and £14 stg, or US$ 16 and US$ 32) and Libyan citizens were allowed one week to exchange their existing notes at

490-745: The Central Bank of Libya issued a LD 20 banknote. The predominantly orange-colored note features a school in Ghadames on the front and the Al-Ateeq mosque and the oasis of Oujla on the back. In June 2013, the Central Bank of Libya issued a LD 50 banknote. The green-colored note features the Italian lighthouse in Benghazi on the front and the Rock formation in the Tadrart Acacus mountains on

525-501: The Central State Bank branches, after which the old LD 5 and LD 10 notes would be worthless. Persons making the exchange, however, were informed that only LD 1,000 worth of new notes would be allowed per customer, a move that "effectively wiped out the savings of the middle-class as well as the hoarded cash of the black marketeers" and that "brought a windfall of £1.5 billion to the cash-starved Treasury". After

560-562: The English words five and ten, but may also be remnants of British slang words 'fiver' and 'tenner' for five and ten pound notes respectively. Libyan currency is nicknamed by Libyans ʿOmar El-Mokhtar after the Libyan freedom fighter who is featured on the obverse of the LD 10 note. Since 2016, the Central Bank of Libya allied with the House of Representatives and issued its own Libyan dinar, with banknotes for LD 20 and LD 50 and

595-467: The LD 1 and LD 20 notes will be withdrawn from circulation soon. Omar Elkaber, governor of the central bank, stated that the bank has already started printing new notes. The Central Bank of Libya has issued a revised LD 10 banknote with revised features, one example is the removal of the reference of the Gaddafi era "Jamahiriya" from upper right back, plus the use of English on the notes for

630-543: The Monopolies commission as being against the public interest. In 1991 the company's name was changed again – this time to De La Rue plc. In 1965 De La Rue established a joint venture with the Italian printer and inventor Gualtiero Giori called De La Rue Giori. Based in Switzerland, the company specialized in building banknote printing equipment. The company printed banknotes for the Central Bank of Iran during

665-485: The back. This is the first note in Libya to utilize Crane's "Motion" thread. The Libyan dinar is commonly called jni, [ʒni] (western Libyan Dialect ) or jneh [ʒneh] (eastern Libyan dialect), derived from the name of British guinea (cf genēh جنيه for the Egyptian pound ), a gold coin worth twenty-one shillings . The name dinar is rarely used outside official circles. The authorized fractional unit,

700-816: The case. In April 2023, it was announced that chairman Kevin Loosemore was stepping down in May 2023 to "draw a line under recent speculation surrounding the leadership of the company". Following the launch of a fast-track search for a replacement, the company appointed Clive Wiley in May 2023. In February 2024, it was announced that the company had been contracted, alongside the Bank of England , to design new bank notes carrying King Charles III's portrait. De La Rue sells high-security fully finished banknotes, polymer substrate and security features for over 69 national currencies . De La Rue also produces other secure documents, including Tax stamps . The company's board

735-607: The company announced the appointment of Martin Sutherland (formerly of BAE Systems Applied Intelligence ) as chief executive officer. In 2016, the Cash Handling division (Cash Processing Systems) was sold to Privet Capital. In December 2016, the company announced it had purchased the DuPont Authentication division. In March 2018, the company sold the paper business. De La Rue retained a 10% share in

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770-476: The date 17.02.2011 (February 17, 2011, the date of the 2011 Libyan revolution and civil war ) added below. A revised LD 5 banknote was issued with altered features similar to the revised LD 10 banknote. The English text has replaced the Arabic text on the back, the removal of the Gaddafi era "Jamahiriya" from the front and upper right back of the note, and the Gaddafi era falcon crest has been removed from

805-819: The dirham) circulated. In 1975, coins were introduced in denominations of 1 Dh., 5 Dhs., 10 Dhs., 20 Dhs., 50 Dhs. and 100 Dhs. which bore the coat of arms of the Federation of Arab Republics . These were followed in 1979 by a second series of coins, in the same denominations, which bore a design of a horseman in place of the arms. LD  1 ⁄ 4 and LD  1 ⁄ 2 coins were issued in 2001 and 2004, respectively. In 2009, new 50 dhs., 100 dhs., LD  1 ⁄ 4 and LD  1 ⁄ 2 coins were issued. 1 dh., 5 dhs., 10 dhs., and 20 dhs. coins are rarely used as units of exchange. However, they still retain their status as legal tender. In 2013 and 2014,

840-410: The dirham, is never mentioned in everyday conversation. Garsh - a variant of the word qirsh - is employed instead, with 1 garsh = 10 dirhams. One thousand dinars is stylishly called a kilo [kiːlu] . Similarly, five dinar notes and ten dinar notes are sometimes nicknamed, in the younger generation male slang, faifa [faːifa] and tsena [tseːna] respectively, which are playful feminizations of

875-470: The family partnership was converted into a private company. In 1921, the de la Rue family sold their interests. The company was first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1947. Then called Thomas De La Rue & Company, Limited , it changed its name in 1958 to The De La Rue Company Limited . A takeover bid for De La Rue was made by the Rank Organisation in 1968, but this was rejected by

910-526: The first practical fountain pen in 1881. Products were marketed under the " Onoto " brand. Production of fountain pens by De La Rue ceased in Britain in 1958 but continued for a few more years in Australia. During the 1930s De La Rue created a number of board games. These included a cricket game, Stumpz , which was produced in a number of different editions, and Round The Horn , a game which re-created

945-479: The first time in two decades. Furthermore, the serial number prefix system has apparently been reset to "1". Two versions of the revised LD 10 banknote were issued, one with the central bank's name rendered with initial-capitals, which were printed by De La Rue of the UK and the other with the central bank's name in all capital letters were printed by Oberthur Technologies of France . Another notable differences for

980-559: The government issued notes in denominations of 5 and 10 piastres, £L 1 ⁄ 4 , £L 1 ⁄ 2 , £L1, £L5, and £L10. In 1959, the National Bank of Libya took over the issuance of paper money with denominations of £L 1 ⁄ 2 , £L1, £L5, and £L10. In 1963, the Bank of Libya took over from the National Bank and issued notes in the same denominations. De La Rue De La Rue plc ( UK : / ˈ d ɛ l ə r uː / , US : / ˌ d ɛ l ə ˈ r uː / )

1015-486: The monument to the Battle of Al-Hani. On February 17, 2013, on the occasion of the second anniversary of the Libyan civil war, the Central Bank of Libya issued a LD 1 banknote, its first issue following the 2011 Libyan revolution and civil war . The front of the note depicts Anti- Gaddafi protesters with the flag of the Libyan rebels . The back of the note depicts the flag of Libya and peace doves. On March 31, 2013,

1050-661: The new business, Portals International Limited . In April 2018, the company decided to appeal against the decision of the British government to manufacture passports in France. It subsequently decided against appealing. In October 2019 the company sold its Identity Solutions business to HID Global for £42m. On 26 July 2019, the Serious Fraud Office opened an investigation into De La Rue plc for suspected corruption in South Sudan . They later decided to close

1085-429: The two notes is both the holographic patch, the symbols on the top left corner on the notes and the date. The De La Rue version is identical to its previous issue, but the only notable difference is the serial number prefix, identified as "7A". The Oberthur Technologies issue has a different holographic patch, the addition of the crescent and star symbol on the top left corner of the note, the serial number prefix as "1" and

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1120-627: Was a part of the Ottoman Empire , the country used the Ottoman qirsh , issuing some coins locally until 1844. When Italy took over the country in 1911, the Italian lira was introduced. In 1943, Libya was split into French and British mandate territories. Algerian francs were used in the French mandate, whilst Tripolitanian lira issued by the British military authorities were used in

1155-543: Was already in circulation and featured Gaddafi on the obverse. The subjects depicted on the banknotes have not changed since series 2 except for the portrait of Gaddafi which became the new obverse design of the LD 1 note in series 4. After the overthrow of Gaddafi's government in the First Libyan Civil War of 2011, Central Bank Governor Gasem Azzoz said that notes with the ousted strongman's face on them were still in circulation and would be used by

1190-561: Was one of the strongest currencies in the world, with £L1=$ 2.80 USD. This was because of the flourishing economy and the new discovery of oil reserves, although a parallel market currency exchange existed which reflected internal economic conditions. Coins were issued in 1952 in denominations of 1, 2, and 5 milliemes, and 1 and 2 piastres. In 1965, a second series of coins was issued in denominations of 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 milliemes. These coins continued to circulate after 1971 as no new coins were issued until 1975. In 1951,

1225-452: Was switched to the special drawing rights on 18 March 1986, with 1 dinar = 2.80 SDRs. On 1 May 1986, the dinar was allowed to trade in a 7.5% range of 2.80 SDRs. This range was expanded several times. The currency started to devalue gradually relative to the US dollar in the mid-1990s, reaching a value of US$ 1.55 in 2001. The dinar was devalued by 50% to US$ 0.77 in 2002. Ali Mohammed Salem, deputy governor of Central Bank of Libya, stated

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