Catalog
100 Livres Libanaises
| Issuer | Banque de Syrie et du Liban |
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| Year | 1945 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour note with an elaborate central vignette of dense arabesque and foliate scrollwork in red, blue, gold, and green tones, framing a circular medallion at centre. Arabic and French inscriptions appear across the upper portion, with denomination numerals "100" repeated in the four corners alongside Arabic script. Series letter and serial number panels are positioned along the upper and lower margins. |
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| Obverse lettering | CENT LIVRES LIBANAISES W. FEL FEC. BROUTIN 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.