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1 Livre
| Issuer | Banque de Syrie et du Liban |
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| Year | 1947-1949 |
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| Designer(s) | Clément Serveau |
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| Obverse lettering | بنك سوريا ولبنان UNE LIVRE SYRIENNE دمشق في انيسان سنة ١٩٤٧ الرئيس مدير شعب سوريا |
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| Protection description | Blank oval watermark panel visible on the left side of the obverse |
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The Banque de Syrie et du Liban was a French-chartered institution operating under mandate authority, and by 1947 its days were already numbered — Syria had declared independence in 1946, Lebanon in 1943, and both countries were actively working to establish their own central banks. These notes were issued into a currency arrangement that all parties knew was temporary.
Marguerite "Rita" Dreyfus was one of the Banque de France's most accomplished engravers of the mid-twentieth century, responsible for some of the finest intaglio portraiture on French colonial issues of the period.