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10 Dinars
| Issuer | National Bank of Iraq |
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| Year | 1950 |
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| Currency | Dinar (1931-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | المصرف الوطني العراقي عشرة دنانير ورقة نقدية قانونية رقم 32 لسنة 1947 عن المصرف الوطني العراقي |
| Reverse description | Central vignette of a large winged Assyrian bull (lamassu) with an Assyrian priest figure standing to its right, executed in intaglio in violet. A guilloche rosette panel at left bears the numeral 10 and the word Dinars, while a plain guilloche circle occupies the right. The legend National Bank of Iraq arcs across the top, with Ten Dinars in large letters along the lower margin. |
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Iraq's 1950 currency law reorganized the monetary system and transferred note-issuing authority from the British-controlled Iraq Currency Board to the newly established National Bank of Iraq — this note belongs to that first independent emission. Bradbury Wilkinson in New Malden handled the production, as they did for a substantial share of British colonial and post-colonial currency work throughout the mid-twentieth century.
The watermark is the sole security provision, which was unremarkable for the period but left the series relatively vulnerable once political instability made counterfeiting a practical concern in later decades.