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5 Piastres
| Issuer | Republique Syrienne |
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| Year | 1944 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a detailed engraved view of the Citadel of Aleppo set within an ornate guilloche border, flanked on either side by circular medallions bearing the numeral 5 and the word PIASTRES. The heading REPUBLIQUE SYRIENNE is inscribed in bold letterpress across the top, with the date and place of issue DAMAS LE 15 FEVRIER 1944 lettered below the central vignette, and the printer's imprint at the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | الجمهورية السورية خمسة قروش دمشق في ١٥ شباط سنة ١٩٤٤ مدير المالية / وزير المالية (Translation: Syrian Republic / Five Piastres / Damascus, 15 February 1944 / Director of Finance / Minister of Finance) |
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Syria's 1944 currency was issued under the Free French administration, which had nominally granted independence in 1941 while retaining effective control — a contradiction the Syrian public was well aware of. Printing in Alexandria rather than Paris or Beirut was a wartime practicality; European printing infrastructure was unavailable, and the Moharrem Press had an established relationship with regional monetary authorities.
The Moharrem Press, founded in 1885, was one of the few facilities in the eastern Mediterranean capable of producing secure currency-grade work at the time. P#55 is among the lower denominations of this transitional issue, which circulated during one of the more volatile periods in Syrian monetary history before the French finally withdrew in 1946.