10 Livres

The Banque de Syrie was established under French Mandate authority in 1919, and this 10 Livres note belongs to the bank's earliest emission series — issued just as France was consolidating administrative control over Greater Syria following the post-WWI partition agreements. The livre syrienne was pegged to the French franc at this stage, making these notes instruments of colonial monetary integration as much as everyday currency.

Bradbury Wilkinson's involvement here is worth noting: their security printing contracts across the British Empire and beyond frequently extended to French-administered territories, commercial rivalry between printing houses rarely following political boundaries.