Catalog
5 Girush / Piastres Syriennes
| Issuer | État du Grand Liban (State of Greater Lebanon) |
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| Year | 1924 |
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| Currency | Syrian pound (1920-1939) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic, Latin |
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| Reverse script | Arabic, Latin |
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Greater Lebanon was proclaimed by French General Henri Gouraud in September 1920, carved from former Ottoman territory under the League of Nations mandate. This 1924 issue belongs to the first coinage series authorized for the new state — a deliberate administrative act by Paris to establish a distinct monetary identity separate from the Syrian piastre system, even as the two currencies shared the same unit name and circulated in overlapping territory.
The aluminium bronze alloy was a French mandate-wide choice driven by postwar metal economics, the same reasoning behind contemporary issues for Syria struck at the Paris mint.