2 Pounds

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.