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5 Livres
| Issuer | Banque de Syrie et du Liban |
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| Year | 1945-1950 |
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| Designer(s) | Clément Serveau |
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| Obverse description | Intricately engraved note in blue and red tones, with an elaborate foliate and arabesque border frame surrounding a central guilloche underprint. The denomination CINQ LIVRES LIBANAISES is inscribed in large letters at centre, with Arabic text below giving the place and date of issue, alongside two manuscript signatures. A circular vignette at left bears the Arabic numeral and script for five livres, while a blank oval cartouche at right is reserved for a counter-signature or control seal. |
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| Obverse lettering | CINQ LIVRES LIBANAISES C. SERVEAU FEC. DELOCHE SC. بيروت في ١ كانون الاولى سنة ١٩٤٥ مدير بنك لبنان الرئيس (Translation: FIVE LEBANESE POUNDS / Beirut, 1 December 1945 / Director of the Bank of Lebanon / President) |
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The Banque de Syrie et du Liban was a French concessionary institution — its note-issuing rights derived from a 1919 concession granted by the French government, not from any Syrian or Lebanese central banking authority. By the time this series was struck, both Syria and Lebanon had formally declared independence, making these notes a peculiar afterlife of the Mandate system: French-printed currency for states that were no longer French territories.
Dreyfus, who signed her work as "Rita," was one of the few women engravers active at the Banque de France print shop during this period. Deloche handled the obverse plate.