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1/4 Dinar
| Issuer | Central Bank of Iraq |
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| Year | 1971 |
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| Printer | Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, United Kingdom (1856-1990) |
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| Obverse lettering | البنك المركزي العراقي ربع دينار ورقة نقدية صادرة بموجب القانون عن البنك المركزي العراقي للمحافظ ميناء البصرة |
| Reverse description | Central vignette presents a grove of date palms in an intaglio engraving set within an ornate green guilloche border, with decorative rosette cornerpieces at all four corners. The denomination '1/4 Dinar' appears in large bold typography at the left, flanked by the words 'Quarter' and 'Dinar' at the lower corners. The issuer name 'Central Bank of Iraq' is lettered across the top centre in serif type. |
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Bradbury Wilkinson printed this note during a politically sensitive period for Iraq — the Ba'ath Party had retaken power in 1968 and was consolidating control over state institutions, including the central bank. The ¼ Dinar was the lowest denomination in the series, and notes at this level typically absorbed the hardest daily use; worn examples are far more common than worn examples of the higher denominations from the same issue.
BW's New Malden facility handled a substantial share of Middle Eastern government printing through the 1960s and 70s, before the firm was absorbed into De La Rue in 1990. The watermark is the sole mechanical security feature on this note — no thread, no latent image.