Catalog
1 Dinar
| Issuer | Central Bank of Kuwait |
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| Year | 1991-1994 |
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| Reference(s) | P#19 |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
| Protection description | the state arms of Kuwait visible when held to light; embedded security thread running vertically through the note. |
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This is the post-liberation series, issued after Kuwait reasserted control following the Iraqi occupation of 1990–91. During the occupation, the Iraqi government forcibly replaced Kuwaiti dinars with Iraqi dinars at a coercive one-to-one rate, stripping the currency of its function entirely. Upon liberation, Kuwait voided all notes of the previous series with minimal notice — a deliberate move to render worthless any currency that had been looted or transferred to Iraq in bulk.
P#19 belongs to the entirely new series commissioned specifically to replace those invalidated notes, with Thomas De La Rue handling production as they had for earlier Kuwaiti issues.