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The Banque de Syrie et du Grand-Liban was established in 1919 under French Mandatory authority, replacing the Ottoman-era Banque Impériale Ottomane as the currency-issuing institution for Syria and the newly created state of Greater Lebanon. This note belongs to the first substantive series produced for that mandate, printed at the Banque de France's workshops in Paris — the same facility producing French metropolitan currency at the time.

Clément Serveau was a well-regarded commercial artist whose work appeared across French colonial and mandate issues of the interwar period. Ernest Deloche's engraving work is consistent with Banque de France production standards of the late 1920s. The series ran across a wide date range, and individual specimens can vary in their hand-stamped or typeset date details.