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50 Dinar Note
FRONT: The grain silo at Basra. Working at full capacity the facility can off-load and process 60,000 tons of grain per hour.
BACK: Date palms. Iraq used to be the world’s largest producer and exporter of dates. Over 600 varieties are grown in-country.
250 Dinar Note
FRONT: The astrolabe. One of the earliest scientific instruments – able to measure the time of day or night and altitude and latitude – conceived by the Greeks it was further developed by medieval Arab astronomers, who used it to help determine the time for fasting during the month of Ramadan.
BACK: The Spiral Minaret in Samarra, built 848-849 A.D. Samarra was then the Abbasid Empire’s capital city.
500 Dinar Note
FRONT: Ducan Dam: The dam is located by Al Zab downside the river within Sulaimania governorate; it is 70 KM far to the north west of Sulaimania city. Dam Type: A bowed concrete, it half diameter is 120 M, it is top length 360 M. at a width of 8.4 M. Overall Storage Capacity: 6.8 Billion cubic meters
BACK: Winged Bull : It is a huge statue ,its length 4.42 M weighs more than 10 tons , one individual of the couples guards one of the wall doors of the Dur Shrokeen City which was founded by the Assyrian king Surjoon the second (721- 705 B.C.) which Sinhareb , Surjoon’s son has abandoned and transferred the Capital to Nineveh city.
1,000 Dinar Note
FRONT: Abu Ali Hasan Ibn al-Haitham (known as Alhazen to medieval scholars in the West), born Basrah in 965 A.D. His most important work – although he wrote some 200 books – is held to be a seven volume series on optics Kitab al-Manazir, in which he gives the first correct explanation of vision, showing that light is reflected from an object into the eye. He is said to have ‘invented’ the camera obscura.
BACK: Hadba Minaret, at the Great Nurid Mosque, Mosul, built 1172 A.D by Nurridin Zangi, the then Turkish ruler. The 59m-high minaret leans 8 feet off the perpendicular. That is how it earned its Arabic name Al-Hadba (‘the humped’).
5,000 Dinar Note
FRONT: Gully Ali Beg and its 800m waterfall. The 10km gully passes between Mount Kork and Mount Nwathnin, some 60km away from Shaqlawa.
BACK: The second century desert fortress of Al-Ukhether,
10,000 Dinar Note
FRONT: Abu Ali Hasan Ibn al-Haitham (known as Alhazen to medieval scholars in the West), born Basrah in 965 A.D. His most important work – although he wrote some 200 books – is held to be a seven volume series on optics Kitab al-Manazir, in which he gives the first correct explanation of vision, showing that light is reflected from an object into the eye. He is said to have ‘invented’ the camera obscura.
BACK: Hadba Minaret, at the Great Nurid Mosque, Mosul, built 1172 A.D by Nurridin Zangi, the then Turkish ruler. The 59m-high minaret leans 8 feet off the perpendicular. That is how it earned its Arabic name Al-Hadba (‘the humped’)
25,000 Dinar Note
FRONT: Kurdish farmer holding sheaf of wheat. A tractor is in the back ground.
BACK: King Hammurabi. Credited with writing the first code of law in human history he founded the First Dynasty of Babylon in 1700 BC, leading Babylonia into a period of great prosperity.
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