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100 Livres
| Issuer | Banque de Syrie et du Liban |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | BON DE CAISSE BANQUE DE SYRIE ET DU LIBAN بنك سوريا ولبنان مئة ليرة Bon pour CENT LIVRES REMBOURSABLES AU PORTEUR A VUE EN UN CHEQUE SUR PARIS A RAISON DE VINGT FRANCS PAR LIVRE BEYROUTH LE 18 AOÛT 1942 LE CONTRÔLEUR LE SECRÉTAIRE GÉNÉRAL SERVICE ÉMISSION LIBAN BANQUE DE SYRIE ET DU LIBAN GOVERNMENT PRINTER PALESTINE 100 BILLET SPÉCIMEN |
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| Reverse lettering | BILLET SPÉCIMEN |
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The Banque de Syrie et du Liban was a French concessionary institution, but by 1942 Free France had little control over its own printing arrangements. With metropolitan France under German occupation and the Levant in political flux following the Allied campaign against Vichy forces in Syria and Lebanon the previous year, this note was produced in Jerusalem under British auspices — an arrangement that would have been unthinkable in peacetime.
The Government Printer, Palestine handled emergency currency work for several Allied-aligned authorities during this period. That a nominally French bank's highest-denomination note was pressed off in Jerusalem tells you more about the war's disruptions than any single historical summary could.