Catalog
1/4 Dinar
| Issuer | Central Bank of Kuwait |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Value | 1/4 Dinar |
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| Obverse description | The Liberation Tower rendered in intaglio occupies the central field against a multicolour guilloche underprint in teal, amber and rose tones. The national coat of arms — a golden falcon bearing a dhow on its chest shield — appears in the upper right quadrant alongside a sailing dhow vignette at lower right, with two authorising signatures and their Arabic titles to the right. The denomination ١/٤ in large Eastern Arabic numerals is positioned at left, balanced by a diamond-shaped value panel at centre right. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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Kuwait's quarter-dinar denomination has a specific practical function: it bridges the gap in everyday retail transactions in a currency system where the dinar itself carries unusually high purchasing power — one Kuwaiti dinar remains among the world's highest-valued currency units by exchange rate. The fractional notes in this series consequently see genuine, heavy circulation rather than the ceremonial use that high-denomination notes often attract.
De La Rue's involvement with Kuwaiti currency stretches back to the earliest post-independence issues of the 1960s. P#29 belongs to the sixth series, introduced under the Central Bank's ongoing programme of incremental security upgrades following the currency replacement necessitated by the 1990 Iraqi invasion, when the entire pre-war note stock had to be demonetized.