Catalog
200 Syrian Pounds
| Issuer | Central Bank of Syria |
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| Year | 1997 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents a cotton plant in fine intaglio, accompanied by three sequential pictorial vignettes illustrating the Syrian cotton industry: field workers harvesting cotton, a spinning facility, and storage silos. Arabesque guilloche patterns frame the composition, with denomination numerals placed at each corner. |
| 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.