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The obverse is dominated by an intricate geometric guilloche border in a Moorish-arabesque style enclosing the central design field. An oval vignette at left is reserved for a portrait or stamp, while the main body carries multi-line Arabic text stating the bank name and denomination, flanked by the denomination numeral and two handwritten signatures. A serial number and date inscription in Arabic appear within the text block, and a circular red seal is affixed in the lower right area. |
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The reverse presents a central vignette of the Citadel of Aleppo rendered in a detailed intaglio engraving, set against a lightly printed guilloche underprint. The denomination numeral '5' appears in red at the lower left, while an elaborate arabesque guilloche border frames the entire note. The issuer name is inscribed across the upper portion in both French and the geographic designation 'SYRIE' appears at upper right. |
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The Banque de Syrie et du Grand-Liban was a French concessionary institution — a private bank granted the right of issue under the French Mandate, not a state central bank. Its notes circulated across a territory whose political geography was itself unstable, with Greater Lebanon only formally delimited in 1920 and the Syrian Federation still being reorganized through the late 1920s.
Printing by the Banque de France's own press gave the series a level of technical security well beyond what most colonial-era mandated territories received. Derveau's engraving work for the BdF was prolific in this period, though his name appears more often in the margins of French overseas issues than in numismatic literature.