Catalog
25 Piastres
| Issuer | Syrian Republic |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Currency | Pound (1919-date) |
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| Reverse description | Bicolour note in olive-green and red, with a large central guilloche medallion bearing the numeral '25' in Arabic and Western numerals, flanked symmetrically by ornate rosette underprint panels and Corinthian column motifs at the outer edges. A small vignette of a standing horse is positioned below the central medallion. The issuer title in Arabic runs across the top, with 'PIASTRES SYRIENNES' inscribed in two panels at lower left and right. |
| Reverse lettering | الجمهورية السورية PIASTRES SYRIENNES 25 ٢٥ (Translation: Syrian Republic Syrian Piastres 25 25) |
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Syria in 1942 was under Free French administration following the Anglo-French campaign against Vichy forces the previous year. The currency apparatus remained tangled between the Banque de Syrie et du Liban — a private French concessionary institution — and the political reality of a nominally independent Syrian Republic that had been proclaimed in 1941 but exercised little actual sovereignty. Notes of this period carry that ambiguity directly: the issuing authority is Syrian, but the financial infrastructure behind it was still French-controlled.
Bradbury Wilkinson handled production in London, a common arrangement for colonial and mandate territories whose local printing capacity was nonexistent or disrupted by wartime conditions.