Catalog
1/4 Dinar
| Issuer | Central Bank of Kuwait |
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| Year | 1970-1982 |
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| Value | 1/4 Dinar (1/4 KWD) |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Emir Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah in intaglio engraving at right, set within an ornate geometric border with multicolour guilloche underprint across the face. Arabic inscriptions at centre identify the issuing authority and denomination, with the value numeral 1/4 repeated in the lower left corner. Two serial numbers appear at upper right and lower left. |
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| Protection description | Watermark portrait of Emir Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah |
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Kuwait's first post-independence currency law, passed in 1960, established the Kuwaiti Dinar at a rate deliberately pegged above sterling — a pointed statement from a state that had only just shed its British protectorate status. The quarter dinar was the smallest denomination in the series and saw heavy everyday use, which means genuinely uncirculated examples from the early part of the issue window are harder to locate than the higher values.
Bradbury Wilkinson printed the full series from their New Malden works, a facility better known for high-security engraved work across Commonwealth and Gulf issues throughout the postwar decades.