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50 Ghirshā / Piastres Essai
| Issuer | Lebanese Republic |
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| Year | 1929 |
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| Currency | Syrian pound (1920-1939) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic, Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | ٥٠ خمسون قرشا 50 PIASTRES ESSAI (Translation: 50 Fifty Piastres Trial) |
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The 1929 Lebanese essais were pattern pieces produced in Paris ahead of the formal coinage program established under the French Mandate. They were never released for circulation — struck to test designs and compositions before production commitments were made. Brass was one of several metals trialed; aluminium-bronze and other alloys appear across the same essai sequence.
Lec#40 places this among a small, well-documented group. Surviving examples almost exclusively derive from the original Monnaie de Paris distribution to collectors and officials.