SYRIA
Middle East NW P117 2000 pounds 2018 2021 UNC—Dictator Son with Moustache—Parliament
Middle East NW P117 2000 pounds 2018 2021 UNC—Dictator Son with Moustache—Parliament
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$9.99
Regular price
$20.00
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Sale price
$9.99
Regular price
$20.00
You will receive one of the following varieties (years of issue):
- 2015
- 2018 (the part of 2018 that fell in 1439 AH ( Islamic calendar))
- 2018 (the part of 2018 that fell in 1440 AH)
- 2021
Colors: Dark purple on light purple and blue.
Front:
- Bashar Hafez al-Assad (born Sep. 11, 1965) is a Syrian ex-dictator from 2000 until his fall on Dec. 8, 2024. The UN and others accuse him of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Syria's 2011-24 Civil War: systematic torture and deaths in detention, disappearing and indiscriminately attacking civilians, housing and civilian infrastructure, and using chemical weapons. Russian president Vladimir Putin gave him asylum and Assad lives in luxury in Moscow.
- The Umayyad Mosque (الْجَامِع الْأُمَوِي), also known as the Great Mosque of Damascus (جَامِع بَنِي أُمَيَّة الْكَبِير), is one of the largest, oldest and most important in Islam because of its historical and eschatological reports and events associated with the mosque.
Back: Parliament — the People's Assembly of Syria (مجلس الشعب, Majlis al-Shaʿb), completed in 1971 on Umayyad Square, Damascus.
The Butcher of Syria, Flip Over for a Meaningless Parliament
Oh, the irony of featuring a dictator, and on the same note, a parliament that he made meaningless
The Syrian People's Assembly (مجلس الشعب) building in Damascus was completed in 1971 — a modernist structure built under Hafez al-Assad's early rule, deliberately functional and austere rather than grand. It sits on Umayyad Square, one of Damascus's main ceremonial spaces.
It's a parliament building in a country that has never had a functioning parliament in any meaningful democratic sense. The Assad family ruled by emergency law from 1963 to 2011 — 48 years — during which the "parliament" was essentially a rubber stamp. Elections were held regularly; candidates ran unopposed or from a single approved list.
The building was shelled and damaged during the 2011–2024 civil war — a parliament building attacked in a country where parliament had no real power.
The square it faces — Umayyad Square — references the same Umayyad Caliphate as the mosque on the front of the note, creating an interesting visual dialogue on the banknote between ancient Islamic legitimacy (the mosque) and modern authoritarian statehood (the parliament).
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Banknote Condition Guide (UNC, XF, VF, F etc.)
- UNC (Uncirculated): No folds/creases; full crispness/sheen. May have "half moon" at edge of security thread.
- AU (About Uncirculated): Nearly perfect, with a single light fold or handling mark that doesn't break the paper. Crisp and colorful.
- XF a.k.a. EF (Extremely Fine): Crisp, firm, bright; a few light folds or one firm crease.
- VF Plus: Minor folds/stains; white areas are bright, still not quite Extra Fine.
- VF (Very Fine): Several folds; paper firmer than average; corners lightly worn.
- VF Minus: VF but may show foxing (yellow/brown patches), thinner paper, more folds/wrinkles/small tears (1-3 mm), otherwise intact.
- F (Fine): Well-used, many folds or creases; paper is soft; some soiling and/or pen marks.
- VG (Very Good) / Limp/worn/faded with heavy creasing/edge wear/tears.