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100 Livres
| Issuer | Banque de Syrie |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | P#10 |
| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in green and pink tones with fine guilloche borders framing the entire note. The bank title "BANQUE DE SYRIE" appears in a central panel at the top, with the denomination "CENT LIVRES SYRIENNES" in bold letterpress below, and the redemption clause in French indicating payability against 2000 francs by cheque on Paris, dated Beyrouth, 1er Janvier 1920. The denomination "L.Syr.100" appears at upper left, with two signature lines for the Secretary General and the Director at centre-lower, and serial number panels at upper left and lower left. |
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| 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.