Katalog
| Emittent | Central Bank of Kuwait |
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| Jahr | 1980-1991 |
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| Nennwert | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Währung | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
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| Größe | 138 × 68 mm |
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| Druckerei | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
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| Im Umlauf bis | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | The State Emblem of Kuwait is centred on the obverse, with a vignette of the Kuwait City Telecommunications Tower to the left, rendered against a guilloche underprint. Two facsimile signatures of the issuing authority appear in the lower portion, attributed to Hamza Abbas and Abdul Rahman al-Atiqui. Bilingual inscriptions in Arabic and English identify the issuing bank and denomination. |
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| Unterschrift(en) | Serial # prefix denominator 52 (stolen by the Iraqi Forces during the Invasion in 1990) |
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| Anmerkungen |
When Iraqi forces occupied Kuwait in August 1990, they looted the Central Bank's vaults and removed substantial stocks of unissued notes — including examples from this series. The stolen notes, identified by their serial prefix characteristics, were subsequently declared invalid by the Kuwaiti government-in-exile and later by the restored government after liberation in February 1991. Notes bearing serial prefix 52 fall directly into that category.
The invalidation created an unusual collector situation: the notes are genuine De La Rue printings, never fraudulent, but permanently demonetized through an act of war rather than routine withdrawal.