Purchase of Own Securities

De La Rue PLC
07 August 2002

De La Rue plc

Repurchase of shares

De La Rue plc announces that on 7 August 2002

it purchased for cancellation 250,000 of its ordinary shares at a

price of 308p per share from Cazenove & Co. Ltd

Enquiries

Shona Beckett Cazenove & Co. Ltd 020 7588 2828


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