The portrait on the ten dinars belongs to the man who for twenty years refused to let Italy call Libya its own. Omar al-Mukhtar, a teacher of the Quran from Cyrenaica, took command of the guerrilla war in 1911 and led it until 1931.

Wounded in battle near Slonta, he was captured and on 16 September 1931 hanged before his followers in the Soluch camp outside Benghazi, at the age of seventy-three. He is remembered as «the Lion of the Desert».

The back is given to horsemen, and the paper repeats al-Mukhtar's portrait with an electrotype figure of the denomination in the watermark. The note was printed by De La Rue of London for the Central Bank of Libya.

A cornerstone for a «national heroes on banknotes» theme and for a modern Libya collection: this ten-dinar design has stayed in circulation unchanged since 2015. UNC condition means the note has never circulated: no folds, no wear, no soiling, even corners — just as it left the press.

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