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2 1/2 Girush / Piastres Essai
| Issuer | Lebanon |
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| Year | 1940 |
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| Currency | Lebanese pound (1939-date) |
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| Reverse script | Arabic, Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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France's Free State mandate over Lebanon was fracturing badly by 1940 — Vichy authorities controlled the territory after the fall of France in June, leaving the monetary administration in an awkward limbo. This essai was struck in Paris as a trial piece for a proposed circulation issue that never materialized under wartime conditions. The Allied invasion of Syria and Lebanon in June 1941 rendered the question moot entirely.
Lec#21 documents only a handful of confirmed specimens.