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Iraq's 1982 coinage was produced during the third year of the Iran-Iraq War, a conflict that would drain the country's finances for the better part of a decade. The Central Bank maintained normal coin production through much of the war's early phase, before economic pressure and metal shortages increasingly disrupted output in later years.

KM#164 is not a scarce type, but the nickel composition was abandoned in subsequent issues as wartime costs bit harder.