333 BC - 64 BC
Hellenistic rule in Lebanon started with the conquest of Phoenician cities of Jbail (Byblos), Beirut, Saida (Sidon) and Sour (Tyre) by Alexander the Great in 333 B.C. This latter city, Sour, resisted a year-long siege for which Alexander army had to build a causeway to reach the Tyrians fortified island city. Nowadays, this causeway has become a peninsula that connects the ancient island city to the mainland. Coinage in this period includes mintage under Argead, Seleucid and Ptolemaic rules.
111 BC - 138 AD
Coins minted during Greek and Rome rule in Phoenician cities-state which were under agreement of autonomous governance agreement.
64 BC - 399 AD
Coins minted under Rome rule in cities located geographically in modern-day Lebanon between 64 BC–646 AD. Primary mints existed in the cities of Tyre (Sour), Sidon (Saida), Berytus (Beirut), Byblos (Jbail), Tripolis (Tarablus) and Heliopolis (Baalbek), while secondary mints with much lower mintage activity are Botrys (Batroun) and Chalcis ad Libanum (reportedly Anjar).
660 - 1258 AD
Coins minted under the Umayyad, Abbasid and Fatimid Caliphates in lebanese cities.
716 - 1485 AD
Al Andalus coinage including post-reform, Umayyad Caliphate in Cordoba, Almoravids, Almohads and the Nasrids kingdom of Granada.
1920 - ____
Covers modern-day lebanese coinage, including the colonial coinage under the French mandate since the formation of State of Greater Lebanon in 1920, and the Republic coinage following Lebanon independence from France in 1943.