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| Issuer | Iraq |
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| Year | 1953 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Faisal II was just eighteen when this coin was struck, still under a regency that had governed since his father's death in a 1939 plane crash. The 1953 issue appeared three years before the young king assumed full constitutional powers — and only five years before he was killed in the 1958 revolution that ended the Hashemite monarchy in Iraq entirely. Coins bearing his name thus span a reign defined almost entirely by transition and instability.