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10 Girush / Piastres Essai
| Issuer | Lebanon |
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| Year | 1929 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Reverse description | Two cornucopias crossed at their bases and overflowing with fruit and grapes occupy the central field, their contents spilling outward to either side. Above the crossed horns, the denomination is inscribed in Arabic script. The numeral 10 in large Western Arabic figures appears in the lower central field, with PIASTRES below it in Latin script. The word ESSAI is incuse to the right of the denomination, identifying this piece as a pattern or trial strike. The design is framed by a beaded border. |
| Reverse script | Arabic, Latin |
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Lebanon's first coinage under the French Mandate was produced at the Paris Mint, with essai pieces struck in 1924 and again for subsequent denominations through the late 1920s. This 1929 essai predates any regular circulation issue of the type, produced as a pattern submission for approval rather than for commerce. France's mandate administration was reorganizing Lebanese monetary arrangements following the separation from the Syrian pound, and these trial pieces document the negotiation between Paris bureaucrats and Beirut officials over what a distinctly Lebanese coinage should look like.