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5 Livres
| Issuer | Banque de Syrie et du Grand-Liban |
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| Year | 1930 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue, green, and orange tones centred on a vignette of the Krak des Chevaliers Crusader fortress set within an oval guilloche frame, with a large blank circle at right. The bank title BANQUE DE SYRIE ET DU GRAND-LIBAN is inscribed in Roman lettering across the upper portion, with GRAND LIBAN in red at upper right and the denomination CINQ LIVRES in bold capitals along the lower margin. The overall layout is framed by elaborate geometric and floral arabesque borders in the Levantine decorative tradition. |
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| Protection description | Blank oval watermark area visible on the obverse left side |
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The Banque de Syrie et du Grand-Liban was a French-chartered institution operating under the Mandate, and its note issues were functionally instruments of colonial monetary administration rather than sovereign banking in any independent sense. The 1930 date places this note squarely in the period when the Mandate authorities were still consolidating the Syrian Pound as the regional currency, having replaced the Egyptian Pound only in 1919.
IBB was the dedicated banknote printing arm established by the Banque de France, and its involvement here reflects the degree to which Paris retained direct operational control over Mandate monetary infrastructure. Pick 9 is among the scarcer issues of this bank; the series suffered heavy attrition through wartime disruption in the early 1940s.