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50 Piastres
| Issuer | Banque de Syrie |
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| Year | 1919-1920 |
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| Currency | Pound (1919-date) |
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| Obverse description | A vignette of the city of Damascus with a steamship at upper centre, framed within a finely engraved border with ornate corner rosettes and guilloche underprint in green and brown tones. The bank title appears in both French and Arabic script across the upper portion of the note, with denomination text in French and Arabic arranged in horizontal bands across the centre. Date and place of issue reading "BEYROUTH" appear at the left, with the serial number repeated at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large central guilloche medallion in red-brown tones, bearing the large numeral "50" at its centre, flanked by two ornate architectural arch vignettes rendered in an orientalist style with decorative column and wheel motifs at their bases. The Arabic bank title "البنك السوري" is inscribed across the upper margin, and the denomination legend appears in a horizontal band across the central medallion. The overall design is enclosed within a multi-layered geometric border. |
| Reverse lettering | البنك السوري 50 PIASTRES SYRIENNES |
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