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amac44 Member United States 3242 Posts	Posted 06/08/2007 1:01 pm I have this note and can you tell me about it worth is short print thing like that? I know that this one you will know something about SAP Image Insert: Report this Post to the Staff

t360 Pillar of the Community United States 2703 Posts	Posted 06/08/2007 2:15 pm Bank of Syria and Lebanon, 10 livres note, overprint reads Damascus, September 1939 Report this Post to the Staff
amac44 Member United States 3242 Posts	Posted 06/08/2007 2:19 pm thanks t360!!! Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16816 Posts	Posted 06/08/2007 7:28 pm The "Bank of Syria and Lebanon" issued similar notes for both protectorates, just with different names printed on them. Syrian notes have "Syrie" and "Damas" (Damascus), Lebanese notes have "Liban" and "Beyrouth" (Beirut). Yours is Syrian. The blue-grey diagonal stripes are an overprint applied to these notes, probably in an attempt to keep track of when and/or where batches of notes were released during WWII. That way, if an invading enemy captured a batch of pre-printed notes and tried to use them, they could be identified quickly. Sort of like the "North African yellow seal" or "Hawaii overprint" US notes. There are five different patterns of striped overprints that were used on Syrian and Lebanese notes. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
amac44 Member United States 3242 Posts	Posted 06/09/2007 05:42 am Thanks Sap for the info Report this Post to the Staff
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