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10 Qirush / Piastres
| Issuer | Banque de Syrie et du Liban |
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| Year | 1961 |
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| Composition | Copper-nickel (75% Copper, 25% Nickel) |
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| Obverse lettering | ١٠ قروش ١٩٦١ الجمهورية اللبنانية (Translation: 10 Qirsh 1961 Lebanese Republic) |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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By 1961, the Banque de Syrie et du Liban was operating on borrowed time as Lebanon's sole currency authority. Syria had already broken from the joint monetary union in 1958 following the formation of the United Arab Republic under Nasser, leaving the bank issuing Lebanese currency only — an awkward institutional fiction that would be resolved when the Banque du Liban assumed authority in 1964. This coin belongs to that three-year twilight period.