200 Syrian Pounds

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.