Lm5 · Central Bank 4th series
1986 · Central Bank of Malta
Agatha Barbara’s portrait identifies the fourth family. The fourth family introduced Lm2 and Lm20 notes alongside Lm5 and Lm10. The Lm1 note gave way to a coin in the same broad currency redesign. The presidential portrait separates these notes from the common Melita front used in the following family.
Central Bank of Malta · CBM acknowledged-source reproduction permission · Sources
Central Bank of Malta · CBM acknowledged-source reproduction permission · Sources
Technical specifications
- Dimensions
- 145 × 69 mm
- Front
- Agatha Barbara
- Back
- Unknown / not verified
- Printer
- Thomas de la Rue Limited, United Kingdom
- Security features
- Unknown / not verified
- Signatures
- Unknown / not verified
- Withdrawal date
- Unknown / not verified
- First issue date
- 1986-03-17
- Printing process
- Intaglio direct-plate printing with a lithographic background
- Colour
- Unknown / not verified
- Serial format
- Unknown / not verified
Series-specific dimensions and named printer are explicitly published on the issuer’s Fourth Series page. These values have not been carried across from the fifth series. No signature variant or unrecorded substrate composition is asserted.
Dating and classification
Issue year; the printed Act date is not necessarily the issue date.
Sources
Checked:
- Central Bank of Malta — First Fifty Years, currency chapter
- Central Bank of Malta — banknote museum timeline
- Central Bank of Malta — archived history of Maltese bank and currency notes
- Central Bank of Malta — Fourth Series specification sheet (archived issuer page)