2009 Libya Muammar Gaddafi One Dinar Crisp Uncirculated Banknote

Muammar Gaddafi (c. 1942 – 20 October 2011), commonly known as Colonel Gaddafi, was a Libyan revolutionary and politician and the de facto ruler of Libya for 42 years. Taking power in a 1969 coup d’etat, he ruled as Revolutionary Chairman of the Libyan Arab Republic from 1969 to 1977 and then as the “Brother Leader” of the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from 1977 to 2011, when he was ousted in the Libyan civil war. In 2011, an anti-Gaddafist uprising led by the National Transitional Council (NTC) broke out, resulting in civil war. NATO intervened militarily on the side of the NTC, resulting in the government’s downfall. Retreating to Sirte, Gaddafi was captured and killed by NTC militants.