Catalog
1000 Pounds
| Issuer | Central Bank of Syria |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Currency | Pound (1919-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Umayyad Mosque (Great Mosque of Damascus), one of the oldest mosques in the world, rendered in fine intaglio line work against a guilloche underprint. Portrait of President Hafez al-Assad at right, facing slightly left. Denomination numerals and Arabic inscriptions frame the design within a scroll-pattern border. |
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| Reverse description | Composite vignette of Syrian economic industries across the full width of the note: at left, oil workers beside an industrial facility with storage tanks and pipelines; at centre, an oil derrick with a pipeline receding into the background; at upper right, a cargo vessel at sea; at centre-right, a combine harvester working a wheat field. The Syrian coat of arms appears at lower right within a medallion. Date "1997" at lower centre-left. Repeating microtext guilloche underprint reading "CENTRAL BANK OF SYRIA" fills the background. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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