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500 Dinars
| Issuer | Central Bank of Iraq |
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| Year | 2015-2018 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large vignette of the Lamassu — the winged Assyrian bull deity with a human head, known as Al-Thawr Al-Mugannah — set against an architectural backdrop referencing the Palace Complex of Sargon II at Khorsabad. The denomination appears in the upper right and lower left corners in both Arabic and Western numerals. Bilingual inscriptions in Arabic and English identifying the Central Bank of Iraq run along the upper and lower registers. |
| Reverse lettering | Central Bank of Iraq Five Hundred Dinars بنك العراق المركزي خمسمائة دينار |
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The 500 Dinar denomination sat awkwardly in Iraq's post-2003 currency structure — too low to be practical for most transactions in an economy where inflation had permanently repriced daily life, yet retained in circulation as the government rebuilt denominations from scratch after the Coalition Provisional Authority's 2003 currency reform wiped out the Saddam-era "Swiss dinar" and "print dinar" divide. Thomas De La Rue's involvement continued the long relationship between London security printers and Iraqi currency production that predates the republic itself.
P#98A represents a later print run within the redesigned series, distinguishable from earlier emissions by subtle registration and security thread placement differences that catalogers still debate.