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200 Syrian Pounds
| Issuer | Central Bank of Syria |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Size | 160 × 75 mm |
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| Obverse description | At centre, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Damascus is rendered as the principal vignette, flanked by wheat ears and a gold Dinar coin; to the right, the equestrian monument to Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub rises before the Citadel of Damascus against a backdrop of ancient portico columns. Denomination numerals and Arabic legends are set within finely executed guilloche underprint borders. |
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| Reverse lettering | البنك المركزي السوري مئتا ليرة سورية 200 |
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Syria's 1997 monetary situation was stable enough that this issue attracted little numismatic attention at the time — the Central Bank was printing in relatively modest quantities compared to the inflationary runs of neighboring states. A print run just over twelve million is not small, but it is restrained for a denomination of this size in the region during the mid-1990s.
Watermark-only security on a late-1990s note is notably thin. By this point most comparable Arab central banks had moved toward security threads as standard. Whether that reflects procurement constraints or a deliberate cost decision is unrecorded in the published literature.