50 Piastres

The République Syrienne notes of this period were issued under the Free French administration following the Allied campaign against Vichy-controlled Syria and Lebanon in mid-1941. France's grip on the Levant was by then a diplomatic awkwardness — the notes maintained French institutional authority while Syria nominally moved toward the independence promised as a condition of the Allied invasion.

Printing was handled by the Survey of Egypt in Cairo, the same government cartographic and security printing office that produced British military and colonial paper across the region throughout the war. Egypt was the practical hub for Allied administrative needs in the Middle East, and farming Syrian currency to Cairo reflected wartime logistics as much as anything else.