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10 Girush / Piastres Essai

Issuer Lebanon
Year 1929
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Weight 2.5 g
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Obverse description A large, spreading Cedar of Lebanon (Cedrus libani) occupies the upper portion of the field, its broad canopy rendered in fine relief with naturalistic branching detail. Below the tree, a rectangular cartouche frames the Arabic legend of the issuing authority flanked by the date in both Eastern Arabic-Indic and Western Arabic numerals. Beneath the cartouche, the French legend REPUBLIQUE LIBANAISE appears in two lines across the lower field. The overall design is framed by a beaded border.
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Mintage 1929
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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.

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