50 Dinars Emergency Gulf War Issue

Emittente	Central Bank of Iraq
Anno	1991
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Valore	50 Dinars (دنانير) (50 IQD)
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Descrizione del dritto	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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Descrizione del rovescio	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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Commenti	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.