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1/2 Dinar
| Issuer | National Bank of Iraq |
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| Year | 1953 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of young King Faisal II in intaglio at right, set within an ornate frame against a purple-brown guilloche underprint. Arabic inscriptions dominate the central field, including the denomination in large script, the issuing authority along the top, and legal text referencing Law No. 42 of 1947. A large blank watermark panel occupies the left portion of the note, flanked by intricate arabesque border designs. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette presents an intaglio view of the Great Mosque of Samarra with its renowned spiral minaret (Malwiya), rendered in fine engraved detail against an open sky. A large decorative guilloche panel at left bears the fractional denomination '1/2 DINAR' in letterpress. The overall colour scheme is purple-brown, with ornamental corner flourishes and arabesque borders framing the composition. |
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Iraq's first post-monarchy central banking legislation came into force in 1947, but the National Bank of Iraq didn't begin issuing its own notes until 1947–1950 under earlier series. By 1953, the country was still nominally under the Hashemite monarchy — this note predates the July 1958 revolution by five years, and the entire series was effectively rendered obsolete when the new Republic of Iraq replaced the National Bank with the Central Bank of Iraq in 1956 and issued fresh currency.
Bradbury Wilkinson handled the bulk of Iraq's note production during this period, working from their New Malden facility. The half-dinar denomination was the smallest in the 1953 series, P#33 through P#37 covering the full range.