Catalog
5000 Pounds
| Issuer | Central Bank of Syria |
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| Year | 2019-2023 |
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| Currency | Pound (1919-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a Syrian soldier rendered in intaglio, standing at a salute against a background vignette of the Syrian flag unfurling across the note. At upper centre, the bank title in Arabic script; at lower centre, the denomination in Arabic words and numerals. Two-colour star-shaped holographic device at lower left, with a vertical security thread bearing the denomination numeral at centre-left. Dual dates in both Hijri and Gregorian calendars appear below the facsimile signatures. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread, Hologram |
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| Comments |
Syria's highest-denomination note entering circulation in 2019 is itself a measure of how far the pound had collapsed — the Syrian pound lost over 99% of its value between 2011 and the early 2020s, making five thousand of them worth less than a single US dollar by the time most of these notes were in wallets. The decision to contract Goznak in Moscow was not incidental: Western security printing firms had largely withdrawn from Syrian contracts under sanctions pressure, and Russia's deepening political and military involvement after 2015 made the relationship a practical one.
Goznak has printed Syrian currency since at least the 2010s series, making this a continuation of an established arrangement rather than a wartime improvisation.