10 Piastres

Lebanon's 1948 10 Piastres note was issued by the Banque de Syrie et du Liban, which retained its role as the currency authority even after Lebanese independence in 1943 — a transitional arrangement that persisted until the Banque du Liban was finally established in 1964. The note's issuing header reads "République Libanaise" but the institution behind it was still the Franco-Syrian joint bank, a relic of Mandate-era financial architecture.

The small-denomination piastre notes of this period were heavily used in everyday commerce and survivors in any decent state are harder to locate than the higher values from the same series.