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1 Ghirsh / Piastre WW2 War Coinage, Pattern
| Issuer | Syrian Government under French Mandate |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Value | 1 Piastre (0.01 SYP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain field bearing bold incuse Latin lettering arranged in three lines: SYRIE at top, P. 1 S. flanking the large numeral 1 in the centre, and the date 1941 in the lower field. The design is typographic in character, entirely devoid of figurative imagery, reflecting wartime austerity production. The wide flat rim frames the inscription without any additional decorative border. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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France's fall to Germany in June 1940 left Syria's Mandate administration in the hands of Vichy, cutting the territory off from metropolitan French minting infrastructure. This 1941 aluminium bronze pattern was struck as wartime supply chains strangled access to the cupro-nickel normally used for Syrian fractional coinage. It never advanced to circulation — the Free French seizure of Syria following the brief Syria-Lebanon Campaign of June–July 1941 overtook whatever production planning had been underway under Vichy authority.