Determining the Conditions for Withdrawing from Circulation Silver Coins Minted under the Former Ottoman Empire

Type

Decision

Number

116

Date of the text

23/05/1935

Official Gazette

published in 1935

Status today

In force as of 27/08/2026

Articles

5

What it provides

This decree instructs the Bank of Syria and Greater Lebanon to withdraw former Ottoman silver coins from circulation on behalf of the public treasury, setting the redemption procedure and official weight-based price, and requiring that coins be cut to be valid after set dates, with a percentage of weight deducted as a

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1935. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.