Lebanon 1933 50 piastres

Steve Album sale 38, lot 3120

This specimen was lot 3120 in Stephen Album sale 38 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2020), where it sold for $166.60. The catalog description^[1] noted, "LEBANON: French Mandate, AR 50 piastres, 1933, some mint luster, EF." This fifty piastres was struck in Paris in 1929 along with a ten piastres (KM 6) and a 25 piastres (KM 7). It was reissued in 1933 and 1936.

Recorded mintage: 100,000.

Specification: 10 g, 0.680 fine silver.

Catalog reference: KM-8, Lecompte-42.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• ^[1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 38, featuring the Dabestani Collection of Persian Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2020.

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• 1929 50 piastres
• 1933 piastre
• 1933 5 piastres
• 1933 25 piastres
• 1934 ½ piastre
• 1936 50 piastres
• Coins and currency dated 1933