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100 Livres
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de Syrie |
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| Year | 1958 |
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| Printer | Bradbury, Wilkinson & Company, London |
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| Obverse lettering | مصرف سورية المركزي مئة ليرة سورية |
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| Reverse lettering | BANQUE CENTRALE DE SYRIE CENT LIVRES SYRIENNES 100 LIVRES |
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This note appeared during a peculiar window in Syrian monetary history: 1958 was the year Syria merged with Egypt to form the United Arab Republic, an arrangement that lasted only until 1961. The Banque Centrale de Syrie continued issuing notes under its own name through the union's early period rather than immediately adopting a joint currency authority, reflecting how incomplete the economic integration actually was in practice.
Bradbury, Wilkinson's engraved intaglio work for Syrian issues of this period is among the finer commercial printing produced for Middle Eastern central banks in the 1950s.