Catalog
5 Dinars Liberation Day
| Issuer | Central Bank of Kuwait |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Currency | Dinar (1960-1990 and 1991-date) |
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| Reverse script | Arabic/Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Kuwait's Liberation Day commemorates February 26, 1991, when coalition forces expelled the Iraqi occupation that had begun with Saddam Hussein's invasion on August 2, 1990. The seven-month occupation saw the Central Bank of Kuwait's own reserves looted — an estimated $5 billion in assets seized — making a commemorative issue from that very institution carry an institutional weight that most national commemoratives lack.