Catalog
1 Livre
| Issuer | Banque de Syrie et du Grand-Liban |
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| Year | 1925-1935 |
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| Value | 1 Pound (1 SYP) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in red-brown tones on a light ground, with an elaborate geometric and arabesque guilloche border in the Moorish style framing the entire note. A large blank cartouche occupies the upper left, flanked by stylised floral corner rosettes; at centre, the denomination is stated in Arabic script as 'Lira Wahida' (One Livre), with the issuing bank title and place and date of issue inscribed below. Two hand-applied signatures appear at lower centre, with the numeral '1' in ornamental circles at lower left and lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | سوريه بنك سوريا الكبير ليرة واحدة بيروت في 15 ايلول 1925 المراقب ميرة لاطلاع العام |
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The Banque de Syrie et du Grand-Liban was a French concessionary bank operating under the League of Nations mandate system, with its currency linked to the French franc rather than to any locally-determined standard. The Syrian pound and Lebanese pound were introduced in 1924 to replace the Egyptian pound, which had served as the dominant currency through the earlier Ottoman and wartime periods.
Printing by the Banque de France places this note within a small circle of colonial and mandate-era issues that France produced through its own central bank facility rather than through commercial security printers — an arrangement that reflected the political sensitivity of the mandate's monetary architecture as much as any practical consideration.