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2 Pounds
| Issuer | Rafidain Bank |
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| Type | Cheques |
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| Obverse lettering | TRAVELLER'S CHEQUE PAYABLE IN ALL COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD PLACE OF ISSUE AND DATE COUNTERSIGN HERE IN PRESENCE OF PAYING AGENT. PAYABLE WITHIN ONE YEAR FROM DATE. RAFIDAIN BANK HEAD OFFICE: BAGHDAD UPON PRESENTATION OF THIS CHEQUE COUNTERSIGNED BY THE PERSON WHOSE SIGNATURE APPEARS BELOW WILL PAY TO THE ORDER OF TWO POUNDS STERLING OR THE EQUIVALENT AT BANKERS BUYING RATE FOR SIGHT DRAFTS ON LONDON. FOR RAFIDAIN BANK SPECIMEN SIGNATURE OF HOLDER GENERAL MANAGER THIS CHEQUE IS REIMBURSABLE IN STERLING AT RAFIDAIN BANK, 13 & 14 KING STREET, LONDON, E.C.2 BRADBURY, WILKINSON & CO. LTD. NEW MALDEN, SURREY, ENGLAND |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted and shows the obverse design in full mirror-image show-through, characteristic of the thin cheque paper stock used. No distinct reverse design elements are present. |
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Rafidain Bank, established in 1941 as Iraq's principal state-owned commercial bank, issued through Bradbury, Wilkinson's New Malden facility — a printer whose intaglio work for Middle Eastern central banks and quasi-central institutions spans several decades. The 2 Pound denomination sits in an awkward middle tier that was never heavily favored in everyday commerce, making heavily circulated examples somewhat harder to locate than the 1 or 5 Pound notes from the same period.
Bradbury, Wilkinson's security printing retained a distinctly British technical character long after Iraqi institutions might have shifted printers — a relationship that persisted partly through institutional inertia and partly through the printer's established color registration standards for the region's notes.