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50 Livres
| Issuer | Banque de Syrie et du Liban |
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| Year | 1952-1964 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette portrays a pastoral coastal landscape with rolling hills, a seaside village, and figures accompanied by cattle in the foreground, executed in fine intaglio line engraving. The title CINQUANTE LIVRES LIBANAISES is set in large letterpress across the upper margin, flanked by Arabic script inscriptions and denomination numerals at the upper corners. Guilloche underprint borders frame the composition, with the serial number and prefix block letters positioned at lower left and upper right. |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents the Rawsheh (Pigeon Rocks) sea stacks rising from the Mediterranean waters off the Beirut coastline, rendered in detailed intaglio engraving. The bank title بنك سوريا ولبنان is inscribed in Arabic across the upper margin, with denomination numerals in both Arabic-Indic and Western script at the upper corners and lower border. Guilloche border frames enclose the entire composition, with a reserved watermark space at the left. |
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The Banque de Syrie et du Liban was a French-chartered institution operating under mandate-era arrangements that had long outlasted the mandate itself. By the time this series entered circulation, Syria had already severed its monetary union with Lebanon in 1948, establishing its own central bank — yet the Banque de Syrie et du Liban continued issuing notes for Lebanon alone until the Banque du Liban finally took over in 1964, the year this series ended.
Thomas De La Rue handled the printing throughout, as they had for the institution since the postwar transition period. The twelve-year span of this issue is unusually long for a single series running into a central bank replacement.