Struck in 1943, this issue was produced while Iraq was under effective British military occupation following the Anglo-Iraqi War of 1941, in which Rashid Ali al-Gaylani's pro-Axis government was ousted in a matter of weeks. Faisal II was six years old at the time, his uncle Prince Abd al-Ilah serving as regent. The coinage continued under the young king's name regardless — a deliberate signal of dynastic continuity at a moment when the throne's legitimacy had been tested and the country's independence was largely nominal.
Struck in 1943, this issue was produced while Iraq was under effective British military occupation following the Anglo-Iraqi War of 1941, in which Rashid Ali al-Gaylani's pro-Axis government was ousted in a matter of weeks. Faisal II was six years old at the time, his uncle Prince Abd al-Ilah serving as regent. The coinage continued under the young king's name regardless — a deliberate signal of dynastic continuity at a moment when the throne's legitimacy had been tested and the country's independence was largely nominal.