Purchase of Own Securities

De La Rue PLC
06 March 2003

De La Rue plc

Repurchase of shares

De La Rue plc announces that on 6 March 2003 it purchased for cancellation
1,000,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of 194p per share from Cazenove &
Co. Ltd

Enquiries

Shona Beckett Cazenove & Co. Ltd 020 7588 2828


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