Catalog
50 Livres
| Issuer | Banque de Syrie et du Liban |
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| Year | 1947-1949 |
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| Engraver(s) | Ernest Deloche |
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| Obverse lettering | CINQUANTE LIVRES SYRIENNES دمشق في لبنان سنة ١٩٤٧ الرئيس مدير كتب سوريا وزارة المالية CL. SERVEAU FEC. E. DELOCHE SC. |
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| Reverse lettering | بنك سوريا ولبنان خمسون ليرة سورية 50 LIVRES CL. SERVEAU FEC. E. DELOCHE SC. |
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The Banque de Syrie et du Liban was a French-controlled institution operating under mandate authority, and by the time this note was issued, that political arrangement was already collapsing. Syria had declared independence in 1946; Lebanon in 1943. The bank continued issuing notes into 1949 largely because no replacement central banking structure was yet operational — this series exists in the gap between mandate currency and genuine national issue.
Serveau and Deloche were a well-established Banque de France pairing, responsible for several colonial and mandate note series of the period. Deloche's intaglio work is characteristically fine.