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The Central Bank of Iraq issues this 2021 technical leaflet detailing the enhanced security features and tactile design elements of its circulating banknotes. The notes incorporate advanced authentication markers, including embedded threads, fluorescent inks, and denomination-specific tactile bars for visually impaired users. All denominations will circulate alongside older notes without withdrawal, while the strict legal requirement to surrender counterfeit currency remains enforced.
250 · 500 · 1000 · 5000 · 10000 · 25000 · 50000 Dinar
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2021
وتلقي هذا النشرة الضنية الضوء على العلامات الأمنية كدليل للجمهور وكذلك للشركات والمعارف التجارية التي تتعامل مع الأوراق النقدية بشكل يومي. وبالإضافة إلى العلامات الأمنية المحسّنة تتضمن الأوراق النقدية الجديدة علامات بارزة لتمكين ضعاف البصر من التعرف على فئات الأوراق النقدية باللمس.
ونحثكم على أخذ الوقت الكافي لتعتادوا على أوراقنا النقدية ومشاركة المعلومات عنها مع من حولكم. سيجري تداول سلسلة الأوراق النقدية الجديدة إلى جانب الأوراق النقدية القديمة ولا توجد لدينا نية لسحب أي من الأوراق النقدية القديمة من التداول.
يتواجد المقر الرئيسي للبنك المركزي العراقي في بغداد، وله ثلاثة فروع في مدن البصرة والموصل وأربيل.
This technical leaflet highlights the security features and aims to be a guide to the public as well as to companies and commercial banks handling cash on a daily basis. In addition to the enhanced security features, the banknotes include raised printings to facilitate tactile recognition of the denominations by visually impaired users.
We encourage you to take your time to familiarize yourself with our banknotes and share the information with those around you. The current series of banknotes will be in circulation alongside the old banknotes, and there is no intention to withdraw the older banknotes from circulation.
The headquarter of the Central Bank of Iraq is in Baghdad and has three branches: Basra, Mosul, and Erbil.
Iraqi banknotes are characterized by the most sophisticated security features and the highest quality of security paper. Any attempt to produce, hold or pass counterfeit banknotes is a criminal offence and there will be severe legal punishments for such acts. Counterfeit banknotes must be surrendered to the police or the Central Bank of Iraq.
The watermark containing a horse head motif can be seen by holding the banknote against the light. The 50000 Dinar also contain a highlight displaying the denominational value.
The security thread is visible as a continuous dark line with the inscription “Central Bank of Iraq” when the banknote is held against the light.
On all denominations, certain motifs are printed in intaglio. These areas have a distinct tactile surface with a strong contrast to the background.
All denominations contain areas printed with fluorescent ink that becomes visible only under ultra violet light. This feature is also detectable by banknote processing devices.
The security of the four larger denominations has been enhanced by a security thread with a defined movement sequence and an additional colour-shift effect. When you hold the banknote against the light you will find the text “Central Bank of Iraq and the Assyrian palm tree.
Optically variable magnetic ink delivers a unique dynamic colour-changing effect on each of the four larger denominations.
A transparent window is placed on the right corner of the front banknotes. In see-through and on a bright background, the transparent window shows a black minaret. When held against a dark background, the denominational value becomes visible.
The security foil stripe contains a holographic element displaying a palm tree and the denomination. An optical colour changing effect can be observed when the banknote is tilted.
This feature is located on the front of the note, along the left-hand edge. The circles or bars whose count varies according to the denomination can be felt by touching. This makes it possible for users with visual problems to identify each denomination.
The element can be seen completely and in perfect register when the banknote is held against the light.
A tactile element that reveals the number 50000 in Arabic when the banknote is tilted.
Dominant Colour: Blue and Grey
Size: 130 x 66 mm
Main Motif: Arabic Astrolabe
Dominant Colour: Blue and Grey
Main Motif: Spiral Minaret in Samarra
Dominant Colour: Green and Blue
Size: 142 x 66 mm
Main Motif: Dokan Dam
Dominant Colour: Green and Blue
Main Motif: Winged Ox
Dominant Colour: Brown
Size: 142 x 66 mm
Main Motif: Logo of inscribing the South Iraqi Marshes in the List of the World Heritage (UNESCO) 2016
Dominant Colour: Brown
Main Motif: Mustansiriah School, Baghdad
Dominant Colour: Blue
Size: 158 x 78 mm
Main Motif: Gely Ali Beg Waterfall in Erbil
Dominant Colour: Blue
Main Motif: Al-Ekedher Fort
Dominant Colour: Green
Size: 170 x 78 mm
Main Motif: The Freedom Memorial in Baghdad
Dominant Colour: Green
Main Motif: Curved Minaret in Mosul
Dominant Colour: Red
Size: 175 x 78 mm
Main Motif: Female Farmer in the Field
Dominant Colour: Red
Main Motif: King Hammurabi Receiving Insignia
Dominant Colour: Brown, green
Size: 159 x 65 mm
Main motif: Water wheel on the Euphrates river, palm trees, Gali Ali Beg waterfall in Kurdistan
Dominant Colour: Brown, green
Main Motif: Iraqi Marshlands, Tigris and Euphrates rivers on a map
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