After using overprinted French stamps, Lebanon began issuing its own stamps. The firsts beared Grand Liban, shortly changed to Republique Libanaise, see the error part to view some of them.
Here you have the two nice high value stamps from each set. They are basically landscape sets.
A very rare and high value stamp. 500 piastres at its time was a big sum sufficient to send a registered parcel to USA. Also the overprint here is important. It is the independance day of Lebanon in Arabic: 22 November 1943. It represents the day where the presidents of the Republic, the prime minister and other ministers had been liberated after being jailed by the french forces.
This stamp issue date is 1945, theoritically it is after the independace. But it is listed before the big issue of independance. It is a nice tax stamp representing the museum of Beirut. It was destroyed and robbed during civil war, and its reconstruction and rehabilitation did not finish yet.