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100 Livres
| Issuer | Banque de Syrie et du Grand-Liban |
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| Year | 1925 |
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| Value | 100 Livres |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed primarily in rose and green tones on a pale guilloche underprint, with Arabic text occupying the right-hand column and French legends to the left. The central field carries the denomination "مئة ليرة" (One Hundred Livres) within an ornate cartouche, flanked by decorative floral and geometric border panels in an Orientalist style. The date "في ١٥ نيسان ١٩٢٥" (15 April 1925) and the issuer's name in Arabic appear to the upper left, with two manuscript signatures below. |
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| Obverse lettering | بنك سوريا ولبنان الكبير مئة ليرة بيروت في ١٥ نيسان ١٩٢٥ لبنان الكبير LIBAN 1939 |
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The Banque de Syrie et du Grand-Liban was a French Mandate institution — a concession granted to a private French bank, the Banque de Syrie, to act as the currency authority across both Syria and the newly configured Greater Lebanon. The 1925 date is significant: it falls within a year of the Great Syrian Revolt, an armed uprising against French control that began in the Jebel Druze in July 1925 and spread to Damascus. Notes of this series circulated under those conditions.
Bradbury, Wilkinson produced the plates in London. The P#13D suffix indicates this is one of several signature varieties within the type — the lettering variant, not a distinct emission.