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The Institut d'Emission de Syrie was a short-lived authority, established after France relinquished the mandate and abolished the Banque de Syrie et du Liban's monopoly. Syrian monetary independence was formally complete by 1950, and this note belongs to that transitional moment — the Institut itself was dissolved and replaced by the Syrian Central Bank within just a few years of issuing these notes.

Bradbury Wilkinson produced the series from their New Malden works, a common choice for newly independent states building credibility through British intaglio printing rather than domestic facilities they didn't yet possess.