Libya 1979 50 dirhams
This specimen was lot 1659 in Stephen Album sale 30 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2018), where it did not sell. The catalog description[1] noted, "LIBYA: Republic, 50 dirhams, 1979/AH1399, only 4 examples known, PCGS graded Specimen-68, ex King's Norton Mint Collection." Libya, long a part of the Ottoman Empire, was conquered by Italy in 1912 and held by them until Word War Two, when it was occupied first by the Nazis and then by the British and the Americans. Libya was granted independence as a constitutional monarchy by the United Nations in 1950. The monarchy was overthrown in 1969. This fifty dirhams was accompanied by KM 18 (dirham), 19 (5 dirhams), 20 (10 dirhams), 21 (20 dirhams), 23 (100 dirhams). Tho not often seen, none are valuable.
Recorded mintage: 9,120,000.
Specification: copper-nickel.
Catalog reference: KM-22.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 30, featuring the George Anderson Collection of Tibetan Coins, the Dr. John W. Lund Collection of Swedish Coins and the Mike Edwards Collection, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2018.
Link to:
- 1975 100 dirhams
- Coins and currency dated 1979
- return to coins of Libya