10 Qirush / Piastres

By 1955, Lebanon had been fully independent for over a decade, but the Banque de Syrie et du Liban — a French-chartered institution — continued to issue its currency until the Banque du Liban was established in 1964. This coin belongs to that awkward interregnum period when a nominally sovereign state still relied on a colonial-era banking structure to manage its money supply.

The aluminium bronze alloy adopted postwar replaced the earlier silver-content issues, a change driven by global metal economics rather than any domestic policy decision.