25 Dinars

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Descrizione del rovescio	Central vignette of the Martyr's Monument in Baghdad, rendered in teal intaglio, flanked to the left by a vignette of an ancient Mesopotamian fortress and a brown engraved panel depicting a Babylonian lion relief. A decorative geometric rosette in multicolour underprint occupies the upper centre, with a palm frond motif at upper right. The denomination legend and issuer name appear in English along the bottom and top margins respectively, within a fine guilloche border.
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Descrizione della protezione	Watermark portrait of Saddam Hussein in western-style suit, visible when held to light
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Commenti	This note belongs to a series issued at a moment when Iraq was deep into the Iran-Iraq War, fighting a conflict that had already stretched the economy far beyond its oil revenues. The Central Bank was printing currency against an increasingly strained budget, and the 1980s series — including this denomination — circulated heavily through a wartime economy running on rationing and state subsidy. P#73 carries a watermark as its sole security provision, a relatively thin specification for the period, though not unusual for Iraqi issues of this decade. Thomas De La Rue handled printing for much of this series.