50 Qirshā / Piastres

The Banque de Syrie et du Liban lost its currency-issuing authority over Syria in 1950, when Damascus established the Syrian Central Bank and severed the monetary union that had linked the two countries since the French Mandate. This 1952 issue therefore circulated exclusively in Lebanon — the bank's name now a relic of a political arrangement that no longer existed.

Lebanon would replace the BSL entirely in 1964 with the Banque du Liban. Pieces from the final years of BSL coinage, including this type, saw genuine circulation and are correspondingly harder to find without wear.