10 Dinars

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.