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2 1/2 Girush / Piastres WW2 War Coinage
| Issuer | Lebanon |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
| Reverse lettering | لبنان ٢ ١/٢ غروش (Translation: Lebanon 2 1/2 Piastres) |
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Lebanon's 1941 fractional coinage was struck under the authority of the Free French administration following the fall of France in 1940. With Vichy controlling the Levant's monetary infrastructure until the Allied invasion of Syria-Lebanon in June 1941, the transition to Free French administration disrupted supply chains for coinage metals. Aluminium bronze replaced the standard composition as a wartime expedient — a substitution driven by metal allocation priorities across the entire French colonial system, not a local decision.
The KM#13a designation distinguishes this from the pre-war 13, which shares the design but differs in alloy.