Catalog
1 Dinar
| Issuer | Central Bank of Iraq |
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| Year | 1979-1984 |
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| Value | 1 Dinar (دينار) |
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| Obverse description | Olive-green and deep blue on multicolour underprint. A large circular coin vignette occupies the centre, set within an elaborate guilloche rosette with scrollwork at the corners. The denomination in Arabic script appears to the right, with serial numbers printed twice in olive-green ink and the issuer's name in Arabic at upper centre. |
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| Reverse description | Olive-green and deep blue on multicolour underprint. The reverse presents a detailed intaglio vignette of the Mustansiriyah school (al-Madrasah al-Mustansiriyyah) in Baghdad, rendered against an ornate arabesque guilloche border. Bilingual inscriptions in Arabic and English appear around the design. |
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Iraq's Central Bank issued this series beginning in 1979, the year the Ba'ath Party consolidated absolute power under Saddam Hussein. The timing is not coincidental — a new currency design program accompanied the broader project of rebranding state institutions under the new leadership.
P#69 is among the more commonly encountered Iraqi notes from this period, having circulated heavily before the economic disruptions of the 1980s Iran-Iraq War degraded the dinar's purchasing power and prompted successive reissues at higher denominations.