Obverse. Photo © Stack's Bowers Galleries
  • 2½ Piastres 1941, KM# 13, Lebanon
  • 2½ Piastres 1941, KM# 13, Lebanon
Description

With the fall of France in 1940 during World War II, Lebanon came under the control of Vichy France until the British and Free French occupied the country in the Syria-Lebanon campaign in July 1941.
Emergency coinage struck in Lebanon during WWII (1941) when the Paris Mint could no longer supply coins.

Obverse

Denomination and country name in Arabic.

لبنان
١/٢ ٢
غرش

Reverse

Country name and denomination in French.

LIBAN
2 1/2
PIASTRE

Edge

2½ Piastres

WW2 Emergency Coinage
KM# 13 Schön# 13 Lec# 48
Characteristics
Material Aluminium
Weight 1.3 g
Diameter 17.3 mm
Thickness 2.26 mm
Shape round
Alignment Coin
Mint
Aleppo Mint

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