Product Description
SCWPM.#96 - TBB.#B538a - Date: 2013Grade: Unc - Signature: 12
Signatures of vice-governor Raed H. Charafeddine and governor Riad Toufic Salamé.
Description: Colour: Blue, brown, red, and green.
Front: Citadel of Independence in Rashaya; stylized flag of Lebanon.
Back: Map of Lebanon; flag of Lebanon with cedar tree.
No security thread. Watermark: None.
Cedar tree as green SPARK-element on both sides.
Two horizontal 7-digit serial numbers on the back, both having a fractional prefix and digits of the same size. The upper left serial number has Arabic-Indic digits while the lower right one has modern Arabic digits.
Printer: Thomas de la Rue, United Kingdom. (TDLR).
Size: 140 x 77 mm. - Material: Polymer
General Information: 2013 Commemorative Issues
This polymer note commemorating 70 years of independence for Lebanon was issued on 22 November 2013 (the anniversary of the end of French colonial rule in 1943), despite the fact that the French-language back spells “independence” as it is written in English, rather than the French “independance.”
The Central Bank of Lebanon said it regretted the mistake, which it blamed on the printing company (De La Rue). Only 50,000 pieces will enter circulation - Source: The Banknotebook.
