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50 Dinars Hijra
| Issuer | Central Bank of Iraq |
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| Year | 1981 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse lettering | الذين آمنوا وهاجروا وجاهدوا في سبيل الله بأموالهم وأنفسهم أعظم درجة عند الله وأولئك هم الفائزون الجمهورية العراقية ٥٠ دينار ١٤٠١هـ-١٩٨٠م (Translation: `Those who believed, and suffered exile and strived with might and main, in Allah`s cause, with their goods and their persons, have the highest rank in the sight of Allah; and they are the winners` Republic of Iraq 50 Dinars 1980-1401) |
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| Reverse script | Arabic/Latin |
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Issued to commemorate the 1,400th anniversary of the Islamic Hijra calendar, this gold piece was part of a broader wave of state-sponsored commemorative issues across the Arab world marking the same occasion in 1981. Iraq's version was produced under Ba'athist authority at a moment when the country was already eight months into the Iran-Iraq War — a conflict that would consume the economy for nearly a decade and make luxury gold issues of this kind an immediate anachronism.