10 Piastres tax stamp

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Descrizione del rovescio	The reverse is plain and unadorned, bearing only a brief handwritten or typeset text in red Arabic script across the centre of the note, denoting its emergency monetary use as a circulating banknote equivalent to 10 piastres.
Legenda del rovescio	ورقة نقدية قروش ١٠ (Translation: 10 piastres banknote.)
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Commenti	Syria's brief period of nominal independence under French Mandate authority produced some administrative oddities, and fiscal stamps pressed into emergency currency use rank among them. In 1945, with the Mandate crumbling and full independence effectively achieved by year's end, the République Syrienne designation on official documents was itself a political statement — the French had long resisted acknowledging Syrian statehood in unambiguous terms. Whether this piece circulated as a genuine monetary substitute or functioned purely as a revenue instrument is a question the surviving examples rarely answer cleanly. Provenance matters here more than condition.