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50 Dinars Emergency Gulf War Issue
| Emisor | Central Bank of Iraq |
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| Año | 1991 |
| Tipo | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Valor | 50 Dinars (دنانير) (50 IQD) |
| Moneda | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Composición | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Tamaño | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Forma | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Impresor | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Diseñador(es) | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Grabador(es) | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| En circulación hasta | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Referencia(s) | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Descripción del anverso | 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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| Leyenda del anverso | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Descripción del reverso | 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. |
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| Firma(s) | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Tipo de protección | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Descripción de la protección | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Variantes | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Comentarios |
Iraq's banking system was severely disrupted by the Gulf War and subsequent UN sanctions, and this 1991 issue reflects that pressure directly. The notes were printed domestically under constrained conditions — a significant departure from the country's earlier reliance on foreign security printers such as De La Rue and the Bundesdruckerei.
The domestic print quality is noticeably inferior to pre-war issues, with cruder intaglio work and paper stock that degrades faster under circulation. Counterfeiting was rampant during the sanctions period, and the Central Bank's limited capacity to authenticate or replace worn notes made the problem considerably worse.
This series was eventually rendered worthless in the northern Kurdish-controlled regions, which adopted the older Swiss-printed "Swiss dinar" instead.