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1 Livre
| Issuer | Banque de Syrie et du Liban |
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| Year | 1942 |
| Type | Pattern or trial banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE DE SYRIE ET DU LIBAN BEYROUTH LE 1ER AOÛT 1942 BON POUR UNE LIVRE LE CONTRÔLEUR SERVICE ÉMISSION LIBAN LE SECRÉTAIRE GÉNÉRAL DES AGENCES DE SYRIE ET DU LIBAN SPECIMEN GOVERNMENT PRINTER PALESTINE بنك سوريا ولبنان ليرة واحدة |
| Reverse description | Plain light blue-grey reverse dominated by a large central medallion of interlocking geometric guilloche work, within which the numeral 1 and the word LIVRE appear alongside Arabic script. A French legend above the central device states the note's redemption terms, with an Arabic translation below. A bold red diagonal SPECIMEN overprint is applied across the entire reverse. |
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The Banque de Syrie et du Liban was a French concessionary institution, and by 1942 the political situation around it had become genuinely complicated — the Free French had displaced Vichy authority in the Levant the previous year, and currency supply was suddenly a logistical problem. Printing this note in British Mandatory Palestine was the practical solution available, not an ideological one.
The Government Printer in Jerusalem handled several emergency currency jobs for Allied-aligned authorities during this period. For a French-chartered bank issuing notes denominated in Livres Syriennes, having them printed under British administration in Palestine is an arrangement that rarely gets a footnote but tells you a great deal about how thin the wartime supply chain actually ran.