{"id":10915,"date":"2012-11-27T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T08:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test946983.live-website.com\/?p=10915"},"modified":"2020-02-09T00:58:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T00:58:48","slug":"syria-new-banknotes-printed-by-russias-goznak-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=10915","title":{"rendered":"Syria new 1,000-pound note (B626c) confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"blog-entry-body\">According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.reuters.com\/article\/idUSBRE85C0CL20120613?irpc=932\" target=\"self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters article dated 13 June 2012<\/a>, Syria has begun issuing new banknotes printed in Russia by Goznak, that nation&#8217;s largest security printer. Syria&#8217;s current 2009 issues (B627a &#8211; B629a) were printed by Oesterreichische Banknoten- und Sicherheitsdruck in Austria, but OeBS has pulled out of the troubled country due to international pressure in the wake of the crackdown on protests against President Bashar Assad\u2019s regime. The new Russian-printed notes are of the older design (B626), originally issued in 1997.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28725\" src=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Syria_CBS_1000_syrian_pounds_1997.00.00_B626c_P111_D-01_1391802_f.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2004\" height=\"878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Syria_CBS_1000_syrian_pounds_1997.00.00_B626c_P111_D-01_1391802_f.jpg 2004w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Syria_CBS_1000_syrian_pounds_1997.00.00_B626c_P111_D-01_1391802_f-300x131.jpg 300w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Syria_CBS_1000_syrian_pounds_1997.00.00_B626c_P111_D-01_1391802_f-768x336.jpg 768w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Syria_CBS_1000_syrian_pounds_1997.00.00_B626c_P111_D-01_1391802_f-1536x673.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Syria_CBS_1000_syrian_pounds_1997.00.00_B626c_P111_D-01_1391802_f-465x204.jpg 465w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Syria_CBS_1000_syrian_pounds_1997.00.00_B626c_P111_D-01_1391802_f-695x304.jpg 695w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2004px) 100vw, 2004px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28726\" src=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Syria_CBS_1000_syrian_pounds_1997.00.00_B626c_P111_D-01_1391802_r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2004\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Syria_CBS_1000_syrian_pounds_1997.00.00_B626c_P111_D-01_1391802_r.jpg 2004w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Syria_CBS_1000_syrian_pounds_1997.00.00_B626c_P111_D-01_1391802_r-300x131.jpg 300w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Syria_CBS_1000_syrian_pounds_1997.00.00_B626c_P111_D-01_1391802_r-768x336.jpg 768w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Syria_CBS_1000_syrian_pounds_1997.00.00_B626c_P111_D-01_1391802_r-1536x671.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Syria_CBS_1000_syrian_pounds_1997.00.00_B626c_P111_D-01_1391802_r-465x203.jpg 465w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Syria_CBS_1000_syrian_pounds_1997.00.00_B626c_P111_D-01_1391802_r-695x304.jpg 695w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2004px) 100vw, 2004px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The new notes are identical to the 1997 issues, but do not have the small map of Syria on the back, and the English serial numbers at lower right front are normal, not novel (increasing in size). The font of the English serial numbers matches that used on Russian notes printed by Goznak.<\/p>\n<p>According to a subsequent <a href=\"http:\/\/english.cri.cn\/6826\/2012\/06\/19\/3124s707153.htm\" target=\"self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article dated 19 June 2012<\/a>, Adib Mayyaleh, governor of the Central Bank of Syria, has denied that Russia is printing new notes for Syria, and stated that worn notes are being replaced following a long-established routine.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/flight-records-list-russia-sending-tons-of-cash-to-syria\" target=\"self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ProPublica report dated 26 November 2012<\/a>, records of overflight requests prove that a total of 240 tons of bank notes moved from Moscow to Damascus over a 10-week period beginning 9 July and ending on 15 September.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of Thomas Augustsson and <a href=\"mailto:beydoun_co@hotmail.com?subject=Referral from BanknoteNews.com\" target=\"self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Abdullah Beydoun<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a Reuters article dated 13 June 2012, Syria has begun issuing new banknotes printed in Russia by Goznak, that nation&#8217;s largest security printer. Syria&#8217;s current 2009 issues (B627a &#8211; B629a) were printed by Oesterreichische Banknoten- und Sicherheitsdruck in Austria, but OeBS has pulled out of the troubled country<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=10915\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[341,5,338],"tags":[207],"class_list":["entry","author-owen-linzmayer","post-10915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-industry","category-middle-east","category-new-variety","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28727,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10915\/revisions\/28727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}