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100 Livres
| Issuer | Banque de Syrie et du Grand-Liban |
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| Year | 1935 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Bank of Beyrouth building set within a decorative frame at upper centre, with French and Arabic bilingual inscriptions below. Serial numbers appear at lower left and lower right, flanking the denomination numeral, with two manuscript signatures and a CANCEL perforation at centre. The note is printed in blue with fine guilloche underprint work throughout. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse printed in brown and green, centred on a large circular guilloche medallion enclosing a panoramic mountain landscape vignette with a town in the foreground. The denomination is repeated in French at the lower centre flanking a shield cartouche bearing the numeral 100, with Arabic script of البنك السوري at the top and corner rosettes carrying the value in Arabic. |
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The Banque de Syrie et du Grand-Liban was a French Mandate institution — a concessionary bank with French capital operating under League of Nations-supervised authority. By 1935, the political ground was already shifting: Syrian nationalists were pushing hard against the Mandate, and the Franco-Syrian Treaty negotiations would collapse just a year later. Notes of this denomination were never high-volume circulation pieces; the 100 Livres was a commercial and interbank instrument, not something passing through ordinary hands.
Bradbury Wilkinson's engraved work for Mandate-era Syrian currency is generally of high quality, and the plates were reused across multiple date variants — the "F" suffix in the Pick reference denotes one of several signature and date progressions within what is essentially the same printed design.