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1/2 Qirsh / Piastre
| Issuer | Syria |
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| Year | 1935-1936 |
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| Value | 1/2 Piastre (0.005 SYP) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Mint | Monnaie de Paris, Paris (and Pessac starting 1973), France (864-date) |
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Syria's coinage of the mid-1930s was issued under the French Mandate authority, with the Banque de Syrie et du Liban controlling monetary affairs rather than any Syrian governmental body. These small-denomination pieces were struck at the Paris Mint, identifiable by the torch privy mark, during a period when Syrian nationalists were pushing hard against the Mandate structure — the general strike of 1936 and the Franco-Syrian Treaty negotiations ran almost concurrently with this coin's production window.