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10 Dinars
| Issuer | Central Bank of Iraq |
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| Year | 1992 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | البنك المركزي العراقي عشرة دنانير ورقة نقدية صادرة بموجب القانون عن البنك المركزي العراقي المحافظ |
| Reverse description | Central vignette of a lamassu — the winged human-headed bull of ancient Assyria — rendered in fine intaglio line work, representing the guardian colossus from the palace complex of Sargon II at Khorsabad. Palm tree motifs form part of the teal guilloche underprint flanking the central panel, while denomination numerals occupy ornamental cartouches at each corner. The issuer name in English and the denomination in words appear in the upper and lower dark guilloche bands respectively. |
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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.