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100 Livres
| Issuer | Banque de Syrie |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Pound (1919-date) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large central oval guilloche vignette in green and mauve, with intricate lathe-work rosette patterns radiating from the centre. The inscription "BANQUE DE SYRIE" is set within a rectangular panel at the centre of the oval. The denomination "S.Syr. 100" appears in each of the four corners against a lightly tinted background. |
| Reverse lettering | BANQUE DE SYRIE S.Syr. 100 |
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The Banque de Syrie was established under French Mandatory authority following the post-WWI carve-up of the former Ottoman territories, and this 1920 issue — among the earliest notes of the series — was printed in London by Bradbury Wilkinson before any local infrastructure existed to support such production. France held the mandate but the British press got the contract, a practical arrangement that was never particularly remarked upon at the time.
Pick 10 is scarce in any grade. The political instability of the early Mandate period, compounded by currency confusion inherited from the Ottoman and wartime Franco-Syrian monetary overlap, meant high-denomination notes circulated hard or disappeared quickly into hoarding.