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500 Fils 14 July Revolution
| Issuer | Iraq |
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| Year | 1959 |
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| Value | 500 Fils (فلوس) (0.500 IQD) |
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| Obverse description | Central design featuring a large eight-pointed sunburst radiating from a circular central medallion, within which appears the Iraqi state emblem incorporating a wheat sheaf and an Arabic legend. Two olive branches flank the sunburst in the left and right fields. At the base of the design, the dual dates 1959 (in Western numerals) and ١٣٧٩ (in Eastern Arabic numerals) are inscribed across the lower field, denoting the Gregorian and Islamic Hijri years respectively. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The 14 July Revolution of 1958 overthrew the Hashemite monarchy and killed King Faisal II, ending a dynasty installed by the British following World War I. This 500 Fils piece was struck the following year as a direct commemorative of that coup, issued by the new republic under Abd al-Karim Qasim. It is one of the earliest coins struck under the Iraqi Republic and among the largest silver pieces in the modern Iraqi series — a deliberate statement of the new government's break from monarchical coinage.
The .500 fineness is unusually low for a prestige commemorative of this size, suggesting production economics or silver supply constraints in the immediate post-revolution period.