Evidence coverage: 1943–1952. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.
Libyan Currency Law article 12 recognizes existing Tripolitanian obligations in Military Authority lira and converts them at 480 per Libyan pound.
Sources and qualifications →The military-administration lira replaced Italian metropolitan lire in Tripolitania during September–November 1943.
Sources and qualifications →Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.
Libyan Currency Law article 12 recognizes existing Tripolitanian obligations in Military Authority lira and converts them at 480 per Libyan pound.
C1444The military-administration lira replaced Italian metropolitan lire in Tripolitania during September–November 1943.
C1499Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
Libyan Currency Law article 12 recognizes existing Tripolitanian obligations in Military Authority lira and converts them at 480 per Libyan pound.
Article 12
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Full Arabic primary-law transcription inspected.
The military-administration lira replaced Italian metropolitan lire in Tripolitania during September–November 1943.
Money and Banking, Tripolitania
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Substantive full indexed passages inspected despite direct page 403: Italian metropolitan lira and BMA pound retired following MAL introduction 15 September 1943; ceased legal tender 30 November 1943, with low-denomination Italian pieces continuing accepted as MAL.
Tripolitanian obligations in Military Authority lira were converted into Libyan pounds at 480:1 under Currency Law article 12.
Articles 10–13
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Full Arabic primary-law transcription inspected.
Tripolitania replaced metropolitan Italian lire with the military-administration lira from 15 September 1943, withdrawing the former legal tender by 30 November; a few small Italian denominations remained instruments valued in MAL.
Money and Banking, Tripolitania
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Substantive full indexed passages inspected despite direct page 403: Italian metropolitan lira and BMA pound retired following MAL introduction 15 September 1943; ceased legal tender 30 November 1943, with low-denomination Italian pieces continuing accepted as MAL.
Currency Law 4 converted existing MAL obligations into Libyan pounds at 480:1; the new pound began circulating 24 March 1952. This dates account succession, not an asserted universal final note-redemption day.
Currency Law 4, section 12; report Supplementary Note
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Full Arabic primary-law transcription inspected.
Currency Law 4, section 12; report Supplementary Note
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Substantive full indexed passages inspected despite direct page 403: Italian metropolitan lira and BMA pound retired following MAL introduction 15 September 1943; ceased legal tender 30 November 1943, with low-denomination Italian pieces continuing accepted as MAL.