Catalog
1/4 Dinar
| Issuer | Central Bank of Iraq |
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| Year | 1979 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London |
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| Reverse lettering | Central Bank of Iraq Quarter Dinar |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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| Comments |
Iraq's quarter-dinar denomination had a short practical lifespan — by the 1980s, inflation driven by the costs of the Iran-Iraq War had effectively made low-value fractional notes obsolete in everyday commerce. This 1979 issue was printed in the final years before that fiscal pressure took hold, just as oil revenues were still sustaining a relatively stable dinar.
Thomas De La Rue's contract with the Central Bank of Iraq during this period was long-standing, though Iraq would later diversify its printing arrangements under sanctions-era constraints that made London suppliers inaccessible.