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100 Livres Libanaises
| Issuer | Banque de Syrie et du Liban |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | A large Cedar of Lebanon tree dominates the right side of the note, rendered in intaglio against a landscape vignette of snow-capped mountain ranges receding to the left. Arabesque ornamental panels flank a central blank reserve at lower left. The denomination "100 LIVRES" appears in the upper corners in both Arabic and French, with the bank name in Arabic script across the top. |
| Reverse lettering | بنك سوريا ولبنان 100 LIVRES مئة ليرة لبنانية W. FEL FEC. R. ARMANELLI SC. |
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The Banque de Syrie et du Liban was a French concessionary institution — its note-issuing authority derived not from an independent central bank but from a 1919 concession granted to a private French concern, the Banque de Syrie et du Grand-Liban. By 1945, both Syria and Lebanon were in the final, turbulent stages of ending that arrangement entirely; Syria would strip the bank of its monopoly within a few years, and Lebanon would eventually replace it with the Banque du Liban in 1964.
Broutin and Armanelli were both seasoned Banque de France engravers. Fel, less frequently credited on colonial-sphere issues, brought a measured classicism to the design that reflects the Banque de France's house aesthetic of the period.