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Iraq's 50,000 Dinar Note

Nominated by Philipp Klink, IBNS Member 11652

IRQ-50000-Front
IRQ-50000-Back
 
Note Iraq B356 (PNL): 50,000 dinars (US$42)
Predominant Colour(s) Brown, green, yellow, and blue
Front Assyrian jar as blue-to-green SPARK patch; water wheel on the Euphrates river; palm trees; flying birds; Gali Ali Beg waterfall in Kurdistan; Assyrian palm tree as registration device
Back Assyrian palm tree; fishermen poling canoes through marshes with flying ducks, water buffalos, reed house; outline map of Iraq showing Euphrates and Tigris rivers; palm trees. varifeye thread with spiral minaret, Malwiya Tower, at the Great Mosque of Samarra
Watermark Horse head and electrotype 50000
Additional Security 4-mm wide purple-to-green RollingStar Cube windowed security thread with demetalized Arabic text (The Central Bank of Iraq)
Printer G&D
Size 156 x 65 mm
Introduced 11.11.2015
Information provided courtesy of The Banknote Book