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5 Qirush / Piastres
| Issuer | Banque de Syrie et du Liban |
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| Year | 1952 |
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| Weight | 1.0 g |
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| Reverse description | A Phoenician galley under full sail dominates the central field, depicted sailing to the right over stylized waves rendered in multiple undulating lines. The vessel features a horse-head prow, a large square sail with rigging details, oar banks along the hull, and a stern ornament. The Arabic denomination legend 'خمسة ٥ قروش' (Five 5 Piastres) arcs across the upper field above the ship. In the lower exergue, the numeral '5' and the Latin legend 'PIASTRES' are inscribed. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded border. |
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| Mint | Monnaie de Paris, Paris (and Pessac starting 1973), France (864-date) |
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By 1952, the Banque de Syrie et du Liban was operating on borrowed time as a monetary authority. Syria had already begun severing its currency ties with Lebanon following independence, and this aluminium issue appeared just as the two countries were finalizing the dissolution of their shared monetary union — a process completed when Syria established its own central bank the following year. The shift to aluminium itself signals the period's economic fragility; earlier issues in this series had used silver.