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200 Pounds Fraction in serial number
| Issuer | Central Bank of Syria |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Size | 145 × 65 mm |
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| Obverse description | At centre, a vignette of the Norias of Hama (نواعير حماة), the celebrated water wheels of the Orontes River, rendered in fine line engraving; to the right stands the Nur al-Din Mosque (جامع نور الدين), a Zengid-era structure founded in 1163–64 CE, with its minaret rising against a guilloche underprint. The denomination and issuing authority inscriptions appear in Arabic script, with the value '200' repeated in numerals. |
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| Protection description | Horse head and denomination. |
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Syria's decision to contract Goznak for this issue reflects the near-total collapse of its traditional Western printing relationships by the late 2010s — De La Rue, Oberthur, and others had withdrawn under sanctions pressure, leaving Russian state printing as one of the few viable options. Goznak had been quietly expanding its client base among sanctioned or politically isolated states for years before this contract materialized.
The security specification here is notably thin for a high-denomination note issued in 2021 — watermark only, no reported security thread or intaglio printing. Syrian pound inflation had been catastrophic since 2011, making 200 pounds a trivial sum by the time this note was printed.