Catalog
500 Pounds
| Issuer | Central Bank of Syria |
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| Year | 1976-1992 |
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| Currency | Pound (1919-date) |
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| Reverse lettering | CENTRAL BANK OF SYRIA FIVE HUNDRED SYRIAN POUNDS 1992 |
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| Protection description | Arabian horse's head. |
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Enschedé printed this series across a remarkably long window — sixteen years — during which Syria weathered the post-1973 oil boom, deep involvement in the Lebanese Civil War, and the severe economic dislocations of the 1980s that pushed the black-market exchange rate to roughly ten times the official peg. That gap between official and street value meant high-denomination notes like this one moved through informal channels far more than through the banking system proper.
The P#105 watermark is the sole mechanical security feature, modest by Enschedé's own standards for the period.