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Red and orange note with a central vignette of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, rendered in fine intaglio engraving and set within a rectangular frame. The denomination '25' appears in both Arabic and Western numerals in the upper corners, flanked by guilloche underprint panels, with the issuer title 'REPUBLIQUE SYRIENNE' across the top and bilingual denomination legends in French and Arabic below. Two signature panels appear at lower left and lower right, with the date 'DAMAS, le 1er Aout 1942' at lower left. |
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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. |
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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.