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1/4 Dinar
| Issuer | Kuwait Currency Board |
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| Year | 1961 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | مجلس النقد الكويتي ربع دينار ١/٤ |
| Reverse description | A central oval intaglio vignette presents an aerial view of the Port of Kuwait, with jetties, moored vessels, and waterfront facilities rendered in fine engraved detail against a calm sea. Elaborate arabesque scrollwork and guilloche borders frame the vignette on all sides, with the denomination fraction 1/4 appearing at left and right in English numerals. The issuer name and denomination are lettered in English copperplate script across the upper and lower margins respectively. |
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Kuwait's Currency Board was established immediately following independence in June 1961, replacing the Indian rupee that had served as the territory's circulating currency under British protection. This first series — the only series the Currency Board ever issued before being superseded by the Central Bank of Kuwait in 1969 — was printed by Bradbury Wilkinson at their New Malden facility, a firm with a long track record of colonial and post-colonial currency work across Africa and the Middle East.
The quarter-dinar denomination is the smallest in the inaugural set. Bradbury Wilkinson's intaglio work on this series is considered among their cleaner outputs of the period.