Catalog
5 Livres
| Issuer | Banque de Syrie et du Liban |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Currency | Pound (1919-date) |
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| Obverse description | Green bon de caisse of geometric design, centered on an interlocking hexagonal guilloche framework enclosing the denomination BON POUR CINQ LIVRES and the date DAMAS, LE 1ER AOUT 1942. The large numeral 5 appears within a subsidiary hexagonal vignette at left and the numeral 0 at right, flanking the central text block; serial number Z-E 051910 is printed at lower left and lower right. Signatures of the Controleur du Service Emission Syrie and the Secretaire General des Agences de Syrie et du Liban appear below the central inscription, with the designer credit R. SORIANO at lower left and I.C. BEYROUTH at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE DE SYRIE ET DU LIBAN BON DE CAISSE BON POUR CINQ LIVRES REMBOURSABLES AU PORTEUR, A VUE, EN CHEQUE SUR PARIS A RAISON DE VINGT FRANCS PAR LIVRE DAMAS, LE 1ER AOUT 1942 LE CONTROLEUR DU SERVICE EMISSION SYRIE LE SECRETAIRE GENERAL DES AGENCES DE SYRIE ET DU LIBAN R. SORIANO I.C. BEYROUTH |
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The Banque de Syrie et du Liban issued this note under conditions of wartime occupation — by 1942, the Free French had control of the Levant following the Syria-Lebanon campaign of 1941, and the bank continued issuing currency under that authority while the region's political future remained genuinely unresolved. Printing by the Banque de France press in Beirut rather than in Paris reflects the practical severing of metropolitan supply chains under wartime conditions.
R. Soriano's credit appears in the design margins — his work for the BSL series is consistent across several denominations of this period.