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100 Dinars Battle of al-Qadisiyyah
| Issuer | Central Bank of Iraq |
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| Year | 1980 |
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| Composition | Gold (.917) |
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| Obverse lettering | الحمد لله الذي وفقنا في اعادة جوانب مشرقة من امجاد القادسية صدام حسين السيد الرئيس المهيب الركن صدام حسين (Translation: Praise be to God who helped us restore bright aspects of the glories of Qadisiyah, Saddam Hussein Mr. President, the Majestic General Saddam Hussein) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Issued to commemorate the 1,350th anniversary of the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah, the 636 AD engagement in which Arab Muslim forces under Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas decisively defeated the Sasanian Empire. Saddam Hussein's government drew heavily on that battle as political symbolism throughout the Iran-Iraq War — which began the same year this coin was struck — rebranding the conflict itself as "Qadisiyyat Saddam."
The X# prefix in the reference indicates this is catalogued as a non-circulating bullion or collector issue, not legal tender in conventional circulation. Struck in .917 gold at a weight placing it in the one-ounce-class commemorative range favored by regional state mints in the early 1980s.