2 Pounds Roman Theatre at Bosra

Bosra's Roman theatre, built in the second century AD under Trajan and later modified by the Byzantines, is among the best-preserved in the world — largely because the medieval Ayyubid dynasty encased it within a fortified citadel, which protected the scaena from centuries of quarrying and war damage. Syria began issuing a consistent series of architectural and archaeological commemoratives in the 1990s as the Assad government promoted heritage tourism, and Bosra was a recurring subject given its UNESCO listing in 1980.