Catalog
10 Dinars
| Issuer | Central Bank of Iraq |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Reference(s) | P#81 |
| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of Saddam Hussein in intaglio at right, facing left, set against a teal guilloche underprint with a faint architectural motif in the background. A central panel bears the denomination in Arabic script alongside the bank's legal tender inscription and a signature of the Governor. Denomination numerals appear in diamond cartouches at upper left and upper right, with additional ornamental rosettes and an oval numeral medallion at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | Central Bank of Iraq Ten Dinars ١٠ |
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This note belongs to the series Iraq issued during the period of UN sanctions imposed after the 1990 invasion of Kuwait. With hard currency reserves frozen and the economy contracting sharply, the Central Bank resorted to domestic printing on increasingly degraded stock — later issues in this family are notoriously prone to poor ink adhesion and paper deterioration, making sound examples harder to find than their print runs would suggest.
P#81 circulated alongside a rapidly inflating dinar; by mid-decade, notes of this denomination had effectively lost meaningful purchasing power.