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.
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.