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100 Livres
| Issuer | Banque de Syrie et du Grand-Liban |
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| Year | 1925 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | A sweeping panoramic vignette of Damascus occupies the central register, with minarets and domed rooftops rendered in fine intaglio against a pale sky. Large ornate incense burners with stylised rising steam flank the cityscape on both sides within intricate guilloche cartouches. The legend CENT LIVRES appears in bold letterpress at top centre, surmounted by the issuing authority title and accompanied beneath by a redemption clause specifying payment in cheque on Paris or Marseille at the rate of twenty francs per livre. |
| Reverse lettering | SYRIE BANQUE DE SYRIE ET DU GRAND-LIBAN CENT LIVRES REMBOURSABLE AU PORTEUR EN CHEQUE SUR PARIS OU MARSEILLE A RAISON DE VINGT FRANCS PAR LIVRE B. LAURENT FEC. E. DELOCHE SC. |
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The Banque de Syrie et du Grand-Liban was itself a French concession — established under the 1919 mandate arrangements and majority-owned by French financial interests, with the Banque de France providing both printing facilities and technical oversight. This note was issued during the brief period when the Syrian pound was pegged to the French franc at 20:1, a ratio that would prove fragile as the franc deteriorated through the mid-1920s.
Deloche was among the senior engravers at the Banque de France's printing works during this period, and his hand appears across several French colonial and mandate-territory issues of the era. Laurent's design credit is relatively unusual to find documented for this series.