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100 Pounds

Issuer Central Bank of Syria
Year 1958-1962
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Value 100 Pounds
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Obverse description A vignette at right portrays a female cotton harvester carrying a basket of cotton bolls on her head, set against a lush cotton field with a second figure stooping to pick cotton in the foreground. Two decorative columns frame the design on either side, with Arabic inscriptions and the denomination in a central guilloche panel. The date appears in both the Hijri and Gregorian calendars along the lower margin.
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Reverse description A detailed intaglio vignette occupies the centre-left, presenting the ancient ruins of Palmyra with colonnaded temple remains and the triumphal arch rendered in fine engraved linework. A large blank circular panel sits to the right, flanked by a winged deity motif at lower right. The bank name and denomination legends are printed in English above and below the central vignette, with the year 1958 at the lower right.
Reverse lettering CENTRAL BANK OF SYRIA / ONE HUNDRED SYRIAN POUNDS / 100 POUNDS
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