Catalog
50 Dinars Emergency Gulf War Issue
| Issuer | Central Bank of Iraq |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Currency | Dinar (1931-date) |
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| Obverse description | Brown and blue-green tones over a peach and multicolor underprint. A portrait vignette of Saddam Hussein is positioned at right, rendered in the intaglio style typical of this emergency issue series. Bilingual inscriptions in Arabic and English identify the issuing authority and denomination. |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents the spiral minaret (malwiya) of the Great Mosque of Samarra, the celebrated 9th-century Abbasid structure located in Samarra, Iraq, set against a guilloche-patterned background. The composition is rendered in the same colour palette as the obverse, with the architectural motif dominating the design field. |
| Reverse lettering | Central Bank of Iraq Fifty Dinars |
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