Catalog
25 Livres
| Issuer | Banque de Syrie et du Grand-Liban |
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| Year | 1939 |
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| Value | 25 Livres |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a central vignette of a vaulted arcade interior, rendered in fine intaglio, with the denomination numeral 25 printed in red at upper left and right flanking the arch motif. The issuer name in Arabic script, بنك سوريا ولبنان, appears along the lower margin, with the date and place of issue inscribed in Arabic at upper right. The inscription SYRIE 1939 is printed in bold letterpress across the centre, with panel serial numbers and prefix in the lower corners. |
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The Banque de Syrie et du Grand-Liban was a French concessionary institution — a private bank granted the right of note issue under the French Mandate, not a state central bank. By 1939 that arrangement was already politically contentious, with nationalist movements in both Syria and Lebanon pushing hard against the financial architecture of the Mandate. This note was issued into that friction.
Printing by the Banque de France and engraving by G. Beltrand places it firmly in the high-quality intaglio tradition of French colonial currency production. The K suffix on Pick #39 designates a specific date variety within the series.