Catalog
100 Syrian Pounds
| Issuer | Central Bank of Syria |
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| Year | 1977-1990 |
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| Size | 167 × 80 mm |
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| Reverse description | Dark blue and light green intaglio vignette on multicolour guilloche underprint. The central design presents an industrial view of the grain silos at the port of Lattakia, with conveyor gantries and a docked vessel rendered in fine line engraving. Denomination numerals '100' appear in ornate cartouches at upper left and upper right, with the date printed in green at lower right; the English inscription 'One Hundred Syrian Pounds' runs along the lower margin beneath a decorative border. |
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| Protection description | an Arabic horse head |
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Thomas De La Rue held the contract for Syrian banknote production through much of the Ba'athist period, and this long-running series — active for over a decade — reflects the relative monetary stability Syria maintained before the economic disruptions of the late 1980s. The wide date range on P#104 is itself telling: a government comfortable enough with a single design to leave it in production across three different Finance Ministers and two distinct phases of Assad's consolidation of state institutions.
Notes from the early 1990 printings occasionally show slight color variance in the green register, a known characteristic of aging ink batches rather than a deliberate change.