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1/4 Dinar
| Issuer | Central Bank of Iraq |
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| Year | 1959 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of King Faisal II facing right occupies the right portion of the note, framed within a fine guilloche border. The central field carries an ornate Arabic cartouche with the denomination in Arabic script, set over a pale green geometric underprint. The bank name in Arabic appears at top, with the serial number and authorising signature below. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Iraq's 1959 note series was the first issued following the July 1958 revolution that abolished the Hashemite monarchy — the Central Bank of Iraq itself had only been established in 1947, and these notes marked a deliberate rebranding of the currency away from royal imagery. Bradbury Wilkinson, working from their New Malden facility, had long been a preferred printer for Middle Eastern central banks, and their intaglio work on the Iraqi series is characteristically tight.
The quarter-dinar denomination was a low-value workhorse, and heavily circulated examples dominate the surviving population.