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Lebanese pound

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Also known as LBP, 1000 lira, Lebanese pound (1939-date)

official currency of Lebanon

AI overview

The Lebanese pound is the official money used in Lebanon for buying and selling goods and services. It matters because it's the standard currency that allows the Lebanese economy to function and people to conduct everyday financial transactions.

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Key facts

Code
LBP (numeric: 422 )
Symbol
None official. The abbreviation LL or ل.ل. is used
1 100
piastre
Freq used
LL 5,000, LL 10,000, LL 20,000, LL 50,000, LL 100,000
Rarely used
LL 1,000
User s
Lebanon
Central bank
Banque du Liban
Website
www .bdl .gov .lb
Inflation
16.09% (Jan 2025)
Source
blog.blominvestbank.com
Pegged with
U.S. dollar = LL 89,500

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
pound
Country
Lebanon
Image
500 Lebanese Pounds - Minted 2009 - Backside.jpg
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Commons category
Money of Lebanon
central bank/issuer
Banque du Liban
unit symbol
LL
price
0.00066334991
currency sign
£
applies to jurisdiction
Lebanon
different from
Funt
conversion to standard unit
0.0010532713026754
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Encyclopedic overview

Lebanese pound or Lebanese lira is the currency of Lebanon. It was formerly divided into 100 piastres (Arabic: قرش qirsh) but, because of high inflation during the Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990), subunits were discontinued.

The plural of lira is either lirat (ليرات līrāt) or invariant, whilst there are four forms for qirsh: the dual qirshān (قرشان) used with number 2, the plural qurush (قروش) used with numbers 3–10, the accusative singular qirshan (قرشًا) used with 11–99, and the genitive singular qirsh (قرش) used with multiples of 100. The number determines which plural form is used. All of Lebanon's coins and banknotes are bilingual in Arabic and French.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lebanese pound” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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