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50 Pounds
| Issuer | Central Bank of Syria |
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| Year | 1977-1991 |
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| Value | 50 Pounds |
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| Obverse lettering | مصرف سُورِيّةُ المركزي خمسون ليرة سورية (Translation: Central Bank of Syria, Fifty Syrian Pounds) |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a detailed intaglio vignette of the medieval Citadel of Aleppo, its massive stone walls, glacis, and fortified gateway tower rendered with fine line engraving against a pale rose and ochre guilloche underprint. The caption "ALEPPO" appears in small lettering below the vignette, with the date visible at lower right. Denomination numerals "50" occupy ornamental cartouches at the upper left and right corners, with the English legend "Central Bank of Syria" at top centre and "Fifty Syrian Pounds" along the lower margin. |
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The P#103 series spans an unusually long window — fourteen years across a period that included the Lebanese Civil War, Syrian military entrenchment in Lebanon, and the country's deepening economic isolation from Western institutions. The Central Bank kept this denomination in continuous issue rather than redesign, suggesting both institutional conservatism and the practical difficulty of commissioning new plates under those political conditions.
Watermark-only security on a fifty-pound note this late into the 1980s was already behind regional norms, and counterfeiting pressure on the series was documented before its eventual withdrawal.