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Auction: 12023 - World Banknotes
Lot: 896

Banque de Syrie et du Liban, 250 livres, 1st April 1939, serial number E.5-690, pale blue & multicoloured, the Baptistry of the Church of saint John at Jbeil (Byblos) at centre, roses at left and right, Berard & Laferriere signatures, reverse multicoloured, Saida´s castle at centre, ´Castle of the sea´, bird at right, LIBAN in blue lower left and right(Pick 21, Ayoub p.85), almost fine, extremely rare, Ayoub states only four examples believed extant

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