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Auction: 19024 - World Banknotes
Lot: 1517

Banque de Syrie et du Grand-Liban, Syria issue with Lebanon 1939 overprint, 100 livres, 1939 (old date 1935), serial number P 765103, purple and pink and pale blue, the Bank head office at centre, value at centre and low left and right SYRIE in top margin and handstamp LIBAN 1939, Berard and Laferriere signatures, two diagonal pink lines across face of note, reverse purple and pale orange, view of Antioch at centre, value in field, two pink diagonal lines across face of the note
(Pick unlisted, Kolsky unlisted, Ayoub unlisted, Djjaroueh unlisted), Ayoub research shows one example extant and one cancelled example extant. In PMG holder, 35 Choice Very Fine, 'Good Embossing', excessively rare and one of only three recorded extant, fresh and original

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Sold for
£8,500

Starting price
£5500