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25 Piastres
| Issuer | Banque de Syrie et du Liban |
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| Year | 1942 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a panoramic view of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, set within an engraved cityscape rendered in brown intaglio. Denomination numerals '25' appear in oval guilloche cartouches at upper left and right, with the title 'REPUBLIQUE LIBANAISE' across the top in letterpress. Date and authority inscriptions are placed at lower left, with two manuscript signature lines flanking the central vignette, and the printer's imprint 'Bradbury Wilkinson & Co. Ltd Graveurs Londres' along the bottom margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIQUE LIBANAISE PIASTRES LIBANAISES VINGT CINQ PIASTRES ou UN QUART DE LIVRE LIBANAISE خمسة وعشرون قرشاً او ربع ليرة لبنانية BEYROUTH le 1er Août 1942 بيروت في 1 آب سنة 1942 LE MINISTRE DES FINANCES وزير المالية LE DIRECTEUR DES FINANCES مدير المالية Bradbury Wilkinson & Co. Ltd Graveurs Londres |
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The Banque de Syrie et du Liban was a French concession bank operating under the Mandate, but by 1942 the political situation had become genuinely complicated — the Free French had ousted the Vichy administration in Syria and Lebanon the previous year, and currency continuity was part of asserting legitimate successor authority. Notes of this period carry that transitional weight without advertising it.
Bradbury Wilkinson's wartime output for overseas clients was constrained by London's own production pressures, which may account for some variation in paper quality across the P#36 series. Worth examining the serial number blocks carefully — range gaps have been documented.