The Raouche Rock — the twin sea stacks off the Beirut coastline — became an unlikely subject for Lebanon's bullion coinage at a moment when the country was threading an uneasy stability between the 2006 war and the escalating spillover from the Syrian conflict. Banque du Liban issued this one-troy-ounce .9999 fine piece as part of its ongoing national landmarks bullion series, a program that has served the country's parallel role as a regional financial hub even as its domestic politics remained chronically fractured.
The .9999 fineness is notable — finer than the American Gold Eagle's .9167 and matching the Royal Canadian Mint's Maple Leaf standard.
The Raouche Rock — the twin sea stacks off the Beirut coastline — became an unlikely subject for Lebanon's bullion coinage at a moment when the country was threading an uneasy stability between the 2006 war and the escalating spillover from the Syrian conflict. Banque du Liban issued this one-troy-ounce .9999 fine piece as part of its ongoing national landmarks bullion series, a program that has served the country's parallel role as a regional financial hub even as its domestic politics remained chronically fractured.
The .9999 fineness is notable — finer than the American Gold Eagle's .9167 and matching the Royal Canadian Mint's Maple Leaf standard.