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50 Ghirshā / Piastres Essai

Issuer Lebanese Republic
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.

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