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25 Livres
| Issuer | Banque de Syrie et du Grand-Liban |
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| Year | 1925-1930 |
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| Engraver(s) | Ernest Deloche |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in warm reddish-brown and blue tones with elaborate Arabesque floral vignettes filling the left and right panels. At centre, a landscape vignette presents the Citadel of Aleppo with its massive stone walls and arched bridge rendered in fine intaglio engraving. The denomination "25" appears in the upper corners within ornamental cartouches, and the full bank title and value legends are set in a banner across the top. |
| Reverse lettering | GRAND-LIBAN BANQUE DE SYRIE ET DU GRAND-LIBAN VINGT CINQ LIVRES REMBOURSABLE AU PORTEUR EN CHÈQUE SUR PARIS OU MARSEILLE À RAISON DE VINGT FRANCS PAR LIVRE CL. SERVEAU FEC. E. DELOCHE SC. |
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The Banque de Syrie et du Grand-Liban was established in 1919 under French Mandate authority, replacing the Ottoman-era Imperial Ottoman Bank as the issuing institution for the region. France's decision to use the Banque de France's own printing facilities — rather than contracting a commercial security printer — was deliberate, tying the credibility of Mandate currency directly to metropolitan French monetary infrastructure.
Clément Serveau was a respected illustrator and poster artist whose work for the Banque de France series brought a distinctly metropolitan aesthetic to currency intended for circulation in Beirut and Damascus. Deloche's engraving work on this series is technically accomplished; the intaglio depth on surviving examples is notably consistent.
Pick 6 spans a five-year window, suggesting the notes were either printed in batches across multiple dates or held in reserve before release — the precise print run figures have not been published.