1/2 Dinar

Iraq's half-dinar note of 1945 was issued under the Government of Iraq directly rather than through the National Bank, reflecting the particular institutional arrangement that kept currency authority fragmented in the mandate and early post-mandate period. Bradbury Wilkinson's New Malden facility handled a considerable share of British colonial and associated-state currency production during this decade, and the quality of intaglio work from that press was consistently high.

Pick 23 is not a common survival. Wartime and immediate postwar circulation in Iraq was hard on low-denomination notes, and the half-dinar saw more daily use than higher values.