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25 Pounds
| Issuer | Central Bank of Syria |
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| Year | 1958 |
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| Currency | Pound (1919-date) |
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| Obverse description | A vignette at right centre portrays a female cotton picker in traditional dress, a harvest basket balanced on her head, set against a cotton field with additional workers visible in the background. The Arabic inscription of the bank name runs along the top border, with the denomination rendered in Arabic numerals at both left and right. Two manuscript signatures appear in the centre field, accompanied by Arabic authority inscriptions and the dual date in both Hijri and Gregorian calendars at lower centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | CENTRAL BANK OF SYRIA TWENTY FIVE SYRIAN POUNDS 1958 25 POUNDS |
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1958 sits at a peculiar juncture in Syrian monetary history: the Central Bank of Syria had been established only in 1956, and by February 1958 the country had merged with Egypt to form the United Arab Republic, rendering newly issued Syrian notes politically awkward almost immediately. This series continued in circulation during the union period regardless, as the currency unification between the two countries was never fully completed before the UAR collapsed in 1961.
Enschedé's involvement reflects the post-independence preference among newly sovereign Arab states for established European security printers over British alternatives — a political as much as a technical choice.