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25 Ghirshā / Piastres Essai
| Issuer | Lebanon |
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| Year | 1929 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#E7, Lec#34 |
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| Obverse script | Arabic, Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | ٢٥ خمسة وعشرون غرشا 25 PIASTRES ESSAI |
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Lebanon's earliest coinage was issued under the French Mandate authority, with the État du Grand Liban framework established in 1920 giving Paris nominal justification to administer the currency. Essai pieces from 1929 were struck at the Paris Mint as presentation or trial strikes ahead of confirmed circulation issues — standard French Mandate practice for new or revised denominations. Very few were produced, intended for official review rather than commerce.
The Lec#34 reference places this firmly within Leconte's catalog of French colonial and mandate essais, a series notorious for thin documentation and disputed survivor populations.