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1 Dinar Liberation
| Issuer | Kuwait |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Printer | Note Printing Australia, Melbourne, Australia |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette is a map of Kuwait with Failaka Island rendered in mainland colours; three smaller islands (Kubbar, Qaruh, Umm Al-Maradim) appear as brown dots in a separate overprint. The Coat of Arms appears at upper right in blue relief; at lower left and right, the 34 Allied Coalition nations of Desert Shield/Desert Storm are listed in English and Arabic respectively. |
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| Reverse description | The vignette at centre depicts the Seif Palace main gate against a backdrop of burning Kuwaiti oil wells ignited during the Iraqi withdrawal, with scenes of liberation celebrations. A commemorative Arabic and English legend appears at lower left beneath a desert landscape underprint. |
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Kuwait's 1 Dinar Liberation note was issued to mark the country's recovery from the Iraqi occupation of 1990–91, and the choice of polymer substrate was deliberate — the Gulf War had demonstrated how vulnerable paper currency was to physical destruction and counterfeiting under occupation conditions. Note Printing Australia, which had developed the GUARDIAN polymer platform with the Reserve Bank of Australia, secured the contract.
Polymer was still a novelty in 1993; outside Australia, very few sovereign issuers had committed to it. Kuwait's adoption was one of the earliest non-Australian deployments of the technology at the commemorative level.