The Syrian pound of 2010 and the Syrian pound of 2022 are old Syrian pounds, the unit in use at both dates, which the Central Bank of Syria announced on 28 December 2025 it would replace by removing two zeros.
Claim ID
CH2-006
Exact or summary claim
The Syrian pound of 2010 and the Syrian pound of 2022 are old Syrian pounds, the unit in use at both dates, which the Central Bank of Syria announced on 28 December 2025 it would replace by removing two zeros.
Destination
02-numbers-that-fail
Status
SUPPORTED
Source
SRC-044 Syrian Arab News Agency, 28 December 2025, reporting the Central Bank of Syria; SRC-039 the executive instructions and decree, not held; AND THE INSTRUMENTS THEMSELVES, held 3 September 2026: SRC-455, Presidential Decree No. 293 of 2025 of 24 December 2025, Article 5 carrying the hundred-to-one conversion table denomination by denomination; and SRC-456, the Governor executive instructions of 29 December 2025, Article 3(a) setting the ninety days from 1 January 2026. Both in the supplement to issue 47 of the 2025 Official Gazette, read at 4x and 5x renders
Source type
State news agency report of an official announcement
Published
2025-12-28
Accessed
2026-08-10
Measure and scope
Currency unit identity for Syrian pound figures dated 2010 and 2022, against the redenomination announced in December 2025.
Known conflict
None. Both figures predate the redenomination on any account of it, so the comparison is of the same nominal unit at very different purchasing power.
Downstream
Chapter 2 section 4; every later chapter carrying a Syrian pound figure
Action
The chapter prints neither the conversion ratio nor the effective date, because the executive instructions and the decree have not been opened. SRC-039 stays open for them. || AMENDED 3 September 2026, basis audits/reports/02-numbers-that-fail_v34_basis_2026-09-03.md. THIS CLAIM RESTED ON NEWS REPORTING AND NOW RESTS ON THE GAZETTE. The chapter formerly said in print that it could not cite the instrument; 02-numbers-that-fail_v34.md cites both. THE CONVERSION OF BANK BALANCES AT THE BEGINNING OF 2026 IS NOT IN EITHER INSTRUMENT and continues to rest on SRC-044 alone, which the prose now states. || CORRECTED 3 September 2026 on MIN-6 of audits/reports/02-numbers-that-fail_v34_diff_review_2026-09-03.md. Any clause holding this claim open for the instrument is withdrawn: THE INSTRUMENTS ARE HELD at SRC-455 and SRC-456 and the chapter cites both. The Status stays SUPPORTED and the claim is unchanged; what changes is that it no longer rests on news reporting alone.