Transaction in Own Shares

De La Rue PLC
10 August 2006

RNS 4206H released at 16.54 on 8 August 2006 incorrectly stated that 50,000
shares had been purchased for cancellation, the correct number of shares
purchased was 60,000 shares. The full corrected text of the announcement is
reproduced below:-





De La Rue plc announces that on 8 August 2006 it purchased for cancellation
60,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of 538p per share from JPMorgan
Cazenove Limited.


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