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1 Piastre
| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 1931 |
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| Value | 1 Piastre (1 ICFP) |
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| Obverse description | Left-facing laureate effigy of Marianne, the allegorical personification of the French Republic, her hair adorned with a wreath of olive branches and flowers and gathered at the nape in a loose chignon tied with a ribbon. The engraver's signature EM.LINDAUER appears in small capitals along the lower rim beneath the truncation. The circular legend REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE runs along the upper periphery, flanked by decorative floral stops, all contained within an ornate beaded and scrollwork border. |
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| Mintage | 1931 - - 16,000,000 |
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France's Syrian mandate coinage was administered directly by the Banque de Syrie et du Grand-Liban, a privately chartered French institution, rather than through any local monetary authority. The 1931 issue arrived amid sharp economic disruption following Syria's integration into the franc zone, which had effectively displaced Ottoman-era coinage still circulating in rural markets well into the 1920s.
Production at the Paris mint was interrupted across this series by the broader retrenchment of French colonial monetary policy during the early Depression years, making certain date-and-mint combinations genuinely scarce in circulated grades rather than merely in mint state.