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100 Livres SYRIE 1939
| Issuer | Banque de Syrie et du Grand-Liban |
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| Year | 1939 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Bank of Beirut building set within an ornate frame, with the black overprint "SYRIE 1939" across the upper portion. The bank title "BANQUE DE SYRIE ET DU GRAND-LIBAN" is arranged to the left and right of the central vignette, with the denomination "CENT LIVRES SYRIENNES" in large letters below. Serial numbers appear at left and right, with two manuscript signatures and a date at lower centre, all set against an intricate guilloche underprint in violet and green tones. |
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| Reverse lettering | البنك السوري مئة ليرة سورية CENT LIVRES SYRIENNES & Syr. 100 |
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The Banque de Syrie et du Grand-Liban operated under French Mandate authority, and by 1939 the political situation was already forcing hard decisions about currency. France's negotiations to cede the Sanjak of Alexandretta to Turkey that year — a territorial concession deeply resented across Syria — made the mandate administration particularly anxious to project financial stability, which partly explains why high-denomination notes continued to be commissioned from Bradbury Wilkinson rather than shifted to cheaper local arrangements.
The P#39 series ran through multiple signature varieties, making issuing-authority attribution on individual notes a matter of careful examination of the signatory combinations rather than date alone.