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10 Piastres
| Issuer | République Libanaise (Lebanese Republic) |
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| Year | 1950 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Violet and pink bicolour design with a classical column vignette at left and right forming a framed border, enclosing a central pink guilloche rosette within which the date and dual signature lines appear in Arabic script. The denomination numeral '10' is repeated in large Arabic-Indic figures at left and right centre, with the Arabic legend 'عشرة قروش' above the guilloche. The issuer title 'الجمهورية اللبنانية' runs along the top in a rectangular panel. |
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| Obverse lettering | الجمهورية اللبنانية عشرة قروش بيروت في ٢١ تشرين الثاني ١٩٥٠ المدير العام وزير المالية |
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The 1950 Lebanese 10 Piastres was issued under a monetary arrangement that was already becoming obsolete. Lebanon had only fully separated its currency from Syria in 1948, when the Lebanese pound was formally decoupled from the Syrian pound and placed under the sole authority of the Banque de Syrie et du Liban — a French-chartered institution that retained control of Lebanese note issuance until 1964, when the Banque du Liban finally replaced it.
Bradbury Wilkinson handled much of the region's colonial and post-colonial small-denomination printing during this period. At the piastre level, circulation wear was brutal and note life short — these low-value pieces were the workhorses of daily commerce in Beirut's souks and rarely survived long enough to reach collectors in decent state.