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| Emittent | Rafidain Bank |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | Traveller's cheque in deep red and olive on a multicolour guilloche underprint with a repeated 'RAFIDAIN BANK' letterpress tint. The Rafidain Bank circular seal with Arabic legend appears at upper left, beside the title text, while a vignette of the Spiral Minaret of Samarra occupies the right margin. The denomination £10 is printed in large figures at lower left and upper right. |
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| Vorderseitenlegende | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Rückseitenbeschreibung | The reverse is a mirror-image show-through of the obverse printed in pale red, carrying no independent design elements. The full obverse text and guilloche underprint are visible in reverse orientation, confirming single-sided letterpress production on translucent cheque paper. |
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| Anmerkungen |
Rafidain Bank was established by the Iraqi government in 1941 as a state-owned commercial bank, and its early note issues were contracted to Bradbury, Wilkinson & Company at their New Malden facility — a common arrangement for newly nationalized banking institutions lacking domestic printing infrastructure. BW&C had long experience producing high-security currency for colonial and post-colonial governments across the Middle East and Africa.
The 10 Pounds denomination sat at the high end of everyday transactional use in Iraq, and notes of this value typically accumulated more handling wear than lower denominations held speculatively by collectors.