Lebanese currency used to make fashion accessories - in pictures

Declining in value, coins are being repurposed as more valuable jewellery

Both 250 and 500 Lebanese pound coin bracelets are on display inside a shop in Tripoli, northern Lebanon. All photos: Reuters

Fashion shop owner Rima Mawlawi El Samad shows off the range of coin bracelets.

Grocery shop owner Antoine Saab puts 250 and 500 Lebanese pound coins into a jar, in Beirut.

Rima Mawlawi El Samad wears a necklace and earrings at her shop.

Coins to be made into jewellery.

Jewellery maker Nisrine Dassouki Haffar works on a bracelet in Tripoli.

Antoine Saab with two jars full of Lebanese pound coins at his shop in Beirut.

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