Syrian President Bashar al-Assad appeared for the first time on a new Syrian 2,000-pound banknote that went into circulation Sunday. The note was printed years ago but did not go into circulation “due to the circumstances of the war and exchange rate fluctuations,” according to central bank governor Duraid Durgham. The currency has dropped from 47 pounds to the dollar in 2010 to 500 pounds to the dollar on Sunday.
