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50 Livres
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de Syrie |
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| Year | 1958 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | مصرف سوريا المركزي خمسون ليرة سورية |
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| Reverse lettering | BANQUE CENTRALE DE SYRIE 50 CINQUANTE LIVRES SYRIENNES |
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Syria's short-lived union with Egypt — the United Arab Republic, formed in February 1958 — creates a dating anomaly here. The Banque Centrale de Syrie was absorbed into unified UAR monetary arrangements almost immediately after this series was prepared, meaning notes bearing this issuer's name had an exceptionally brief window of legitimate issue before institutional nomenclature shifted.
Bradbury, Wilkinson printed for a wide range of Middle Eastern central banks through this period, and their intaglio work was among the most technically precise available to newly independent states.