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1 Dinar
| Issuer | Government of Iraq |
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| Year | 1935 |
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| Value | 1 Dinar (دينار) (1 IQD) |
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| Obverse lettering | BRADBURY WILKINSON & Co. LD. ENGRAVERS, NEW MALDEN, SURREY, ENGLAND |
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| Reverse lettering | GOVERNMENT OF IRAQ ONE DINAR CURRENCY NOTE ISSUED, AND CONVERTIBLE INTO STERLING, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF LAW No 44 OF 1931 BRADBURY WILKINSON & Co. LD. ENGRAVERS, NEW MALDEN, SURREY, ENGLAND |
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Iraq's paper currency in the mid-1930s was issued under the authority of the Iraqi government rather than a central bank — the National Bank of Iraq wasn't established until 1947. This 1 Dinar belongs to the earliest series of Iraqi government notes, printed by Bradbury Wilkinson at their New Malden works, who handled security printing for numerous newly independent or mandate-era states during this period.
The kingdom under Faisal I had only been formally independent since 1932, and the currency infrastructure was still being built from scratch. Bradbury Wilkinson's contract work for Iraq during the 1930s predates the more elaborate series that followed the central bank's founding by over a decade.