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500 Pounds
| Issuer | Central Bank of Syria |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Value | 500 Pounds |
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| Reverse lettering | CENTRAL BANK OF SYRIA | 2013 | FIVE HUNDRED SYRIAN POUNDS | 500 | الفواصل الموسيقية الأولى | OLDEST MUSICAL NOTE |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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Syria's turn to Goznak for this issue reflects the practical realities of the civil war years — Western security printers had become inaccessible to the Assad government by the early 2010s due to sanctions and political pressure, pushing Damascus toward Moscow for currency production. Russia's state printing works has supplied banknotes to a number of sanctioned or diplomatically isolated governments over the decades, and the relationship was a natural one given the broader Syrian-Russian alignment during the conflict.
Notes from this period circulated under extraordinary stress, with parallel economies, counterfeiting pressure, and territorial fragmentation all compressing the lifespan of individual pieces.