Catalog
25 Livres
| Issuer | Institut d'Emission de Syrie |
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| Year | 1955 |
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| Value | 25 Pounds (25 SYP) |
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| Obverse description | Red-toned note with a central vignette of a triumphal arch gateway framed by guilloche borders, with the Syrian state arms at right. Arabic inscriptions from the Institut d'Emission de Syrie appear at top, with denomination numerals in the upper corners and lower left. A signature and AH/AD dual date appear at bottom center. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of the ruins of Palmyra, with the monumental arch and colonnaded street rendered in fine intaglio engraving in red. An oval blank panel occupies the right portion of the design, flanked by the denomination '25 LIVRES' in upper left and right corners. The issuer name and denomination legend appear in French above and below the vignette respectively. |
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The Institut d'Emission de Syrie had an abbreviated existence — Syria nationalized its currency operations in 1956, folding the Institut's functions into the newly established Central Bank of Syria. This note, issued in 1955, was therefore among the last produced under the transitional authority that had managed Syrian currency since the end of the French Mandate. Bradbury Wilkinson's New Malden facility handled much of the Commonwealth and post-colonial issuing world's printing needs through this period, and Syria was one of several newly independent Arab states that continued sourcing notes from British security printers long after political ties with Britain had cooled.
P#78B designates a specific signature variant within the 1955 series.