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500 Piastres
| Issuer | Banque de Syrie |
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| Year | 1919-1920 |
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| Reference(s) | P#5 |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE DE SYRIE / البنك السوري / CINQ CENT PIASTRES OU CINQ LIVRES SYRIENNES / خمسمائة غرش أو خمس ليرات سورية / REMBOURSABLE AU PORTEUR EN CHÈQUE SUR PARIS À RAISON DE VINGT CENTIMES FRANÇAIS PAR PIASTRE SYRIENNE / BEYROUTH LE 1er AOUT 1919 / LE SECRÉTAIRE GÉNÉRAL / LE DIRECTEUR / 500 PIASTRES SYRIENNES |
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| Reverse lettering | البنك السوري / 500 PIASTRES SYRIENNES / ٥٠٠ غرش سوري |
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The Banque de Syrie was established under French mandate authority in 1919, and this 500 Piastres note belongs to the bank's inaugural emission — issued at a moment when the political status of greater Syria was still genuinely contested. Faisal I was governing Damascus with Arab nationalist backing while French and British officials were dividing the region between themselves at the Paris Peace Conference. Notes from this series were circulating into a territory with no settled sovereignty.
Bradbury Wilkinson handled the engraving and printing from their New Malden works. Their involvement was purely a commercial contract — British printers supplying a French-mandated institution.