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The Banque de Syrie et du Grand-Liban was a French-chartered institution operating under the Mandate, and its note issues were functionally instruments of colonial monetary administration rather than sovereign banking in any independent sense. The 1930 date places this note squarely in the period when the Mandate authorities were still consolidating the Syrian Pound as the regional currency, having replaced the Egyptian Pound only in 1919.

IBB was the dedicated banknote printing arm established by the Banque de France, and its involvement here reflects the degree to which Paris retained direct operational control over Mandate monetary infrastructure. Pick 9 is among the scarcer issues of this bank; the series suffered heavy attrition through wartime disruption in the early 1940s.