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100 Livres
| Issuer | Banque de Syrie |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 100 Pounds (100 SYP) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE DE SYRIE البنك السوري CENT LIVRES SYRIENNES مئة ليرة سورية Remboursable au porteur contre 2000 Francs en cheque sur Paris تدفع لحامله ألفا فرنك شيك على باريس BEYROUTH le 1er JUILLET 1920 بيروت في 1 تموز 1920 L'ADMINISTRATEUR DÉLÉGUÉ LE DIRECTEUR |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents a central oval vignette in fine intaglio engraving with a panoramic city view set against a mountainous background, enclosed within an elaborate guilloche border. The Arabic bank title appears at the top within an ornamental cartouche, with the numeral '100' repeated in the upper corners and 'L. Syr. 100' at lower centre. The overall colour scheme combines blue and orange-brown tones with a multicolour guilloche underprint. |
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The Banque de Syrie was a French-controlled institution operating under the Mandate, and this 100 Livres belongs to the earliest years of that arrangement — the Livre syrienne having replaced the Egyptian pound as the territorial currency in 1920. Bradbury Wilkinson handled much of the prestige banknote printing for British and French colonial administrations alike during this period, which is why a note issued under French mandate authority came out of a London workshop with no particular contradiction at the time.
High-denomination notes from this inaugural series are genuinely rare in any condition. The political instability of the early Mandate period — including the Franco-Syrian War of 1920 — severely disrupted normal distribution channels.