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| Issuer | Iraq |
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| Year | 1937-1938 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse lettering | المملكة ١٠ فلس ١٣٥٧ ١٩٣٨ العراقية (Translation: Kingdom of Iraq 10 Fils 1938 - 1357) |
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Ghazi I ruled Iraq from 1933 until his death in April 1939, when he was killed in a car crash widely believed — especially among Iraqi nationalists — to have been arranged by the British. These coins were struck across just two years of his short reign, and the political turbulence surrounding his rule makes surviving examples from regular circulation relatively scarce in better grades. His vocal pan-Arab sympathies and open hostility toward the British mandate establishment made him a deeply inconvenient king.