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500 Dinars
| Issuer | Central Bank of Iraq |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Value | 500 Dinars |
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| Reverse description | A suspension bridge over the Tigris River occupies the central vignette, rendered in fine intaglio linework against a multicolour guilloche underprint. The large numeral '500' appears in bold at left, with the English inscription 'Central Bank of Iraq' across the top and 'Five Hundred Dinars' along the lower border. Geometric latticework cartouches in green and orange anchor the lower corners. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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The 500 Dinars of 1995 was issued under comprehensive UN sanctions imposed after the 1990 invasion of Kuwait, a period when the Iraqi dinar had collapsed catastrophically in real purchasing power. The parallel "Swiss dinar" — older Kuwaiti-printed notes still circulating in the Kurdish north — was by this point worth hundreds of times more than the equivalent face value in these government-issued notes.
Printed domestically after foreign printing relationships were severed by sanctions, the note reflects the constraints of that isolation.