Lebanon 1971 50 piastres
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This specimen was lot 917 in Stephen Album sale 30 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2018), where it sold for $329. The catalog description[1] noted, "LEBANON: Republic, 50 piastres, 1971, only 10 examples known, PCGS graded Specimen-66, RRR, ex King's Norton Mint Collection." This was issued 1968-78. In 1980, a vicious war broke out between Christian and Muslim militias and soon the Israeli and Syrian armies were occupying various parts of that unhappy land. The cedar is the symbol of Lebanon, once forested with this handsome tree.
Recorded mintage: 2,000,000.
Specification: nickel.
Catalog reference: KM-28.1.
- 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 30, featuring the George Anderson Collection of Tibetan Coins, the Dr. John W. Lund Collection of Swedish Coins and the Mike Edwards Collection, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2018.
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