Catalog
1/4 Dinar
| Issuer | Central Bank of Iraq |
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| Year | 1959 |
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| Printer | Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, United Kingdom (1856-1990) |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of King Faisal II facing right occupies the right portion of the note, framed within a fine guilloche border. The central field carries an ornate Arabic cartouche with the denomination in Arabic script, set over a pale green geometric underprint. The bank name in Arabic appears at top, with the serial number and authorising signature below. |
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| Reverse description | A central vignette of a grove of date palms rendered in intaglio engraving occupies the middle of the note, flanked on either side by large circular guilloche rosettes. The inscription 'Central Bank of Iraq' runs across the top in English, with 'Quarter' at lower left and 'Dinar' at lower right, all contained within a decorative green-toned border. |
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Iraq's 1959 note series was the first issued following the July 1958 revolution that abolished the Hashemite monarchy — the Central Bank of Iraq itself had only been established in 1947, and these notes marked a deliberate rebranding of the currency away from royal imagery. Bradbury Wilkinson, working from their New Malden facility, had long been a preferred printer for Middle Eastern central banks, and their intaglio work on the Iraqi series is characteristically tight.
The quarter-dinar denomination was a low-value workhorse, and heavily circulated examples dominate the surviving population.