Catalog
1000 Dinars World Heritage
| Issuer | Central Bank of Iraq |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Size | 142 × 66 mm |
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| Obverse description | Brown and multicolour note with an ornate guilloche underprint of stylised floral and geometric motifs across the entire field. A central vignette presents a circular compass-rose medallion with a silhouetted traditional Iraqi reed boat (mashuf) at its base, surrounded by an Arabic inscription band referencing the marshes and archaeological sites of southern Iraq. Three tactile circles are positioned at the left edge as a visually impaired aid, and the denomination numeral '1000' appears in all four corners within scroll cartouches. The issuer's name in Arabic, البنك المركزي العراقي, is inscribed across the upper centre, with the dual date 1440H–2018 at left. |
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| Protection description | Head of a horse; embedded security thread visible when held to light. |
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Iraq's 2018 note series was issued during the country's post-ISIS stabilization period, when the Central Bank was under pressure to modernize its currency infrastructure while managing severe fiscal strain from collapsed oil revenues and reconstruction costs. De La Rue's Loughton facility handled the contract — the same plant responsible for a significant share of the bank's earlier post-2003 issues.
The security specification here is modest by contemporary standards: a basic watermark and a single security thread, with no optically variable ink or color-shifting features. For a 1,000-dinar note — worth roughly under one US dollar at prevailing rates — that's proportionate to its transactional role in daily commerce.