Catalog
100 Pounds
| Issuer | Central Bank of Syria |
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| Year | 2009 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | البنك المركزي في سوريا ۱۰۰ مائة ليباس السوري (Translation: Central Bank of Syria 100 One Hundred Syrian Pounds) |
| Reverse description | The ornate dome of the Treasury (Bayt al-Mal) of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus occupies the upper vignette, rendered in detailed intaglio engraving. Below, the Central Bank of Syria building on Sabaa Bahrat Square (Square of the Seven Fountains) is depicted alongside a representation of an ancient silver Antoninianus coin of Roman Emperor Philip the Arab (Marcus Julius Philippus Augustus, r. 244–249 AD), all set against a multicolour guilloche underprint. |
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Syria contracted OeBS in Vienna for this series — an unusual choice given that Syrian banknote production had historically leaned toward Soviet-bloc and Eastern European printers during the Ba'ath decades. By 2009, the Central Bank was gradually modernizing its security printing relationships, though this denomination retained a relatively modest security specification, with watermark listed as the primary feature — thin coverage for a 100-pound note by contemporary standards.
The 100-pound denomination had by this point lost significant purchasing power to inflation, limiting its practical role in daily commerce.