Purchase of Own Securities

De La Rue PLC
14 August 2002

De La Rue plc

Repurchase of shares

De La Rue plc announces that on 14 August 2002

it purchased for cancellation 68,000 of its ordinary shares at a

price of 316.78p per share from Cazenove & Co. Ltd

Enquiries

Shona Beckett Cazenove & Co. Ltd 020 7588 2828




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