Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Ghirsh / Piastre WW2 War Coinage
| Issuer | Banque de Syrie et du Liban |
|---|---|
| Year | 1941 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Plain field featuring the Arabic inscription لبنان arched across the upper portion in bold raised script, with the Eastern Arabic numeral ١ (one) prominently centred in the field, flanked by decorative dots, and the word غرش (ghirsh/piastre) inscribed along the lower portion. The design is deliberately simple and unadorned, consistent with the emergency wartime coinage series struck for Lebanon during the Second World War. |
| Reverse script | Arabic |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Syria and Lebanon were under French Mandate administration when Germany overran France in June 1940, leaving the Levant territories in the hands of Vichy authorities. The British and Free French invaded in June 1941, and it was in the chaos of that transition that wartime aluminum coinage became a necessity — nickel and copper were requisitioned for the war effort, and the Banque de Syrie et du Liban had to work with whatever base metals remained available. The aluminum substitution was strictly a wartime expedient, not a redesign.