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1 Dinar Liberation
| Issuer | Central Bank of Kuwait |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Value | 1 Dinar 1 KWD = EUR 2.77 |
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| Obverse description | The obverse presents intricate arabesque guilloche underprint across the face with a restrained overall design. The Kuwaiti Coat of Arms appears in full colour at the upper right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a central vignette of Kuwait City harbour with a traditional Dhow at anchor; the Seif Palace is rendered at left and the Scientific Centre at right. A Kuwaiti soldier raising the national flag and a girl drawing four doves on a wall appear as subsidiary vignettes symbolising liberation and peace. |
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Kuwait's "Liberation" dinar was issued to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the country's liberation from Iraqi occupation in 1991. It was one of the earlier polymer commemoratives from Note Printing Australia, a format Kuwait's central bank chose partly for its durability as a collectible issue and partly because the Gulf climate is notoriously hard on cotton-paper currency.
Polymer commemoratives of this period frequently suffer from ink adhesion problems along fold lines — a known characteristic of early NPA polymer stock, worth examining closely on any circulated example.