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1 Līrah / Livre XIII Winter Olympics, Piedfort
| Issuer | Banque du Liban |
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| Year | 1980 |
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| Value | 1 Livre |
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| Obverse description | Central device features a stylized abstract design incorporating a cedar tree and a downhill skier rendered in flowing calligraphic lines, unified within a triangular composition occupying the center of the field. A circular legend surrounds the design, reading in both Arabic and Latin scripts the name of the issuing republic, the year, and the denomination. The denomination '1 L.L.' appears in the lower portion of the legend alongside its Arabic equivalent. |
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| Reverse lettering | الالعاب الاولمبية الشتوية الثالثة عشرة XIII JEUX OLYMPIQUES D`HIVER LAKE PLACID 1980 لاكـ بلاسيد ١٩٨٠ (Translation: 13th Olympic Winter Games Lake Placid 1980) |
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Lebanon issued this piedfort alongside the standard circulation strike to mark the 1980 Winter Games held at Lake Placid — a Games overshadowed by the U.S.-led boycott debate, though that boycott ultimately targeted the summer event in Moscow rather than the winter. Piedforts were produced specifically for collectors, struck at double the normal planchet thickness on specially prepared dies.
The timing was complicated. By 1980, Lebanon was four years into a civil war that had already gutted the country's financial institutions and displaced much of its population. That the Banque du Liban was commissioning collector issues at all speaks to institutional inertia more than stability.