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5 Livres
| Issuer | Banque de Syrie et du Liban |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Currency | Pound (1919-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE DE SYRIE ET DU LIBAN BON DE CAISSE BON POUR CINQ LIVRES REMBOURSABLES AU PORTEUR, A VUE, EN CHEQUE SUR PARIS A RAISON DE VINGT FRANCS PAR LIVRE DAMAS, LE 1ER AOUT 1942 LE CONTROLEUR DU SERVICE EMISSION SYRIE LE SECRETAIRE GENERAL DES AGENCES DE SYRIE ET DU LIBAN R. SORIANO I.C. BEYROUTH |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in teal-green on plain paper and mirrors the geometric structure of the obverse, with a large ornate central cartouche of interlaced guilloche work enclosing the Arabic text stating the issuer, denomination, and redemption terms. The large numeral 5 is set within a lobed frame at the left border and the numeral 0 within a corresponding frame at right; the Arabic legend سندمالي (bond) appears at upper left and upper right. The date دمشق أول آب 1942 is inscribed at the base of the central cartouche. |
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The Banque de Syrie et du Liban issued this note under conditions of wartime occupation — by 1942, the Free French had control of the Levant following the Syria-Lebanon campaign of 1941, and the bank continued issuing currency under that authority while the region's political future remained genuinely unresolved. Printing by the Banque de France press in Beirut rather than in Paris reflects the practical severing of metropolitan supply chains under wartime conditions.
R. Soriano's credit appears in the design margins — his work for the BSL series is consistent across several denominations of this period.