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25 Livres
| Issuer | Banque de Syrie et du Grand-Liban |
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| Year | 1939 |
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| Printer | Banque de France (Imprimerie de la Banque de France) |
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| Reverse description | Trial proof in incomplete form, with substantial voids in the central and lower portions of the note. The upper register bears the issuer's name in French, "BANQUE DE SYRIE ET DU GRAND-LIBAN", above a large "Vingt Cinq Livres" title. A vignette of a monumental archway or city gate occupies the upper centre, rendered in warm ochre and green tones. Symmetrical arabesque fan-shaped floral vignettes in blue and gold guilloche fill the lower left and right corners. |
| Reverse lettering | GRAND-LIBAN BANQUE DE SYRIE ET DU GRAND-LIBAN Vingt Cinq Livres Remboursable au Porteur au change sur Bancs du Protocole à raison de Vingt Francs par Livre 25 |
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The Banque de Syrie et du Grand-Liban was a French concessionary institution — its notes were obligations of a private bank operating under a League of Nations mandate, not instruments of a sovereign central bank. The 1939 date places this issue in a narrow window: France was weeks from declaring war on Germany, and the mandate territories were being quietly prepared for wartime economic controls that would reshape Syrian and Lebanese monetary arrangements within a few years.
Printing by the Imprimerie de la Banque de France guaranteed quality, but the "O" suffix in the Pick reference denotes a specific signature combination that collectors track carefully — earlier and later signature variants of P#39 carry meaningfully different scarcity levels.