Catalog
5 Livres
| Issuer | Banque de Syrie et du Liban |
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| Year | 1945-1950 |
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| Value | 5 Livres (5 LBP) |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette in intaglio engraving shows a panoramic view of a Middle Eastern townscape with a mosque, domed structures, and a minaret set against a clouded sky. Decorative floral and foliate borders in red and green frame the composition on all sides, with denomination numerals 5 and the word LIVRES repeated in each corner. An unframed oval cartouche occupies the left portion of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | بنك سوريا ولبنان خمس ليرات لبنانية 5 LIVRES C. SERVEAU FEC. RITA SC. |
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The Banque de Syrie et du Liban was a French concessionary institution — its note-issuing rights derived from a 1919 concession granted by the French government, not from any Syrian or Lebanese central banking authority. By the time this series was struck, both Syria and Lebanon had formally declared independence, making these notes a peculiar afterlife of the Mandate system: French-printed currency for states that were no longer French territories.
Dreyfus, who signed her work as "Rita," was one of the few women engravers active at the Banque de France print shop during this period. Deloche handled the obverse plate.