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Date of the Iraqi currency: Since the reign of King Faisal I to the beginning of the republican era
And Sam Cdji - Researcher in the affairs of Heritage
Number 2422 for the day January 3, 2012
1 - currencies of the reign of King Faisal I (1921-1933)
In 1917, Britain occupied Iraq and was taken away from the control of the Ottoman Empire after four centuries of Ottoman rule. Imposed after the British occupation authorities use the currency of the Indian Rupee and paper and metal parts of Balana and its complications.
The use of these currencies circulating in Iraq alongside Ottoman coins up to 15 Maes of the year 1920 when the British military governor issued an order which suspended the Ottoman currency trading and kept only the Indian currency trading.
In 1921, the establishment of the Kingdom of Iraq and was crowned King Faisal I King, has been the Indian currency is traded on the new state which is next to it was suggested not to full sovereignty. After about ten years, Law No. 44 of 1931, which formalized the Commission on the Iraqi currency, which is assigned responsibility to issue a new Iraqi currency. The issuance of the Iraqi currency took some time, On 16 March of 1932, issued the first time a new Iraqi currency paper is the Iraqi dinar, which consists of thousand fils, which bears the name of the Iraqi government in the Supreme and the image of King Faisal I to the right and the value of the currency in the middle. The obverse is written in Arabic and English written in the back for being the currency of the discharge anywhere in the world. The coins bear the image of her face and the face of King Faisal I headed towards the right and the words (Faisal I) and on the right side (the king of Iraq) on the left side. The back of coins is subject to a small circle there in the middle of the coin and below the word (Fils) and around the circle words (Kingdom of Iraq) so that the word (UK) at the top and the (Iraqi) below, separated by a Hijri calendar on the right and the Christian calendar on the left. And the serrated edge of minted silver for categories and classes of curved and flat nickel bronze. Banknotes were printed paper and metal coins struck in London in Britain.
Continued circulation of the Indian rupee and cheerfulness to the Iraqi currency until 01.10.1932 was issued to stop the circulation and is limited in circulation to the Iraqi currency. These coins are very rare in the present day, especially large groups of them as the price of paper and ten dinars new (or very clean) edition of the several thousands of dollars, either paper Vsaaraa percent dinars, of which fiction. The following file contains the images of the currencies of the reign of King Faisal I.
2 - currencies of the reign of King Ghazi (1933-1933)
King Faisal I traveled to Bern in Switzerland on September 1, 1933 on a journey of treatment and periodic examinations. After seven days of travel, ie, September 8 he was pronounced dead of a heart attack suffered. The announcement of the death of King Faisal I a big surprise for the people of Iraq, and Iraqi opposition newspapers that there is doubt that brings death were not normal, and cast doubt on Britain's role in eliminating him. It has been said at the time that there had hatched a conspiracy to eliminate the King in which the nurse who was supervising the treatment of poisoning him during the injection which was given to him. He had announced in 1924 for the selection of Prince Ghazi, and Crown Prince of Iraq when he was ten years old Rabah.
Prince Ghazi hear the case of the death of his father contacted the British ambassador and asked him to extend his helping hand in the arrangement of the constitutional transition of power. Already been constitutional conditions in a hurry to declare the Crown Prince (Ghazi) property of the same day. In a simple ceremony attended by the Minister and the President both houses (Senate and House of Representatives) I swear by the new king at the age of 23 years was sworn in and then announced the news of his coronation on people and became the name «first King Ghazi of Iraq».
On November 29, 1934, under the law No. 44 of 1931 was issued a new paper currency bearing the image of King Ghazi.
The specifications of these coins in all respects similar to those that remained silent during the reign of King Faisal I except for carrying it on her face a picture of King Ghazi, the first heading to the left.
Not the rule of King Ghazi stable but subject to a lot of the contentions and political crises, and the young king had no interest in personal hobbies to exercise more than was spent to measure governance. On the night of 3 / 4 April 1939, an event unless the account where the car hit a King Ghazi, one of the electricity pylons close to the SFA in the Harthiya and fallen column on the head of King, where the death of term after the incident, approximately one hour was not yet reached the age of thirty.
The currencies of King Ghazi, the first also of rare coins are now sold in auction prices are expensive, especially large groups of
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And Sam Cdji - Researcher in the affairs of Heritage
Number 2422 for the day January 3, 2012
1 - currencies of the reign of King Faisal I (1921-1933)
In 1917, Britain occupied Iraq and was taken away from the control of the Ottoman Empire after four centuries of Ottoman rule. Imposed after the British occupation authorities use the currency of the Indian Rupee and paper and metal parts of Balana and its complications.
The use of these currencies circulating in Iraq alongside Ottoman coins up to 15 Maes of the year 1920 when the British military governor issued an order which suspended the Ottoman currency trading and kept only the Indian currency trading.
In 1921, the establishment of the Kingdom of Iraq and was crowned King Faisal I King, has been the Indian currency is traded on the new state which is next to it was suggested not to full sovereignty. After about ten years, Law No. 44 of 1931, which formalized the Commission on the Iraqi currency, which is assigned responsibility to issue a new Iraqi currency. The issuance of the Iraqi currency took some time, On 16 March of 1932, issued the first time a new Iraqi currency paper is the Iraqi dinar, which consists of thousand fils, which bears the name of the Iraqi government in the Supreme and the image of King Faisal I to the right and the value of the currency in the middle. The obverse is written in Arabic and English written in the back for being the currency of the discharge anywhere in the world. The coins bear the image of her face and the face of King Faisal I headed towards the right and the words (Faisal I) and on the right side (the king of Iraq) on the left side. The back of coins is subject to a small circle there in the middle of the coin and below the word (Fils) and around the circle words (Kingdom of Iraq) so that the word (UK) at the top and the (Iraqi) below, separated by a Hijri calendar on the right and the Christian calendar on the left. And the serrated edge of minted silver for categories and classes of curved and flat nickel bronze. Banknotes were printed paper and metal coins struck in London in Britain.
Continued circulation of the Indian rupee and cheerfulness to the Iraqi currency until 01.10.1932 was issued to stop the circulation and is limited in circulation to the Iraqi currency. These coins are very rare in the present day, especially large groups of them as the price of paper and ten dinars new (or very clean) edition of the several thousands of dollars, either paper Vsaaraa percent dinars, of which fiction. The following file contains the images of the currencies of the reign of King Faisal I.
2 - currencies of the reign of King Ghazi (1933-1933)
King Faisal I traveled to Bern in Switzerland on September 1, 1933 on a journey of treatment and periodic examinations. After seven days of travel, ie, September 8 he was pronounced dead of a heart attack suffered. The announcement of the death of King Faisal I a big surprise for the people of Iraq, and Iraqi opposition newspapers that there is doubt that brings death were not normal, and cast doubt on Britain's role in eliminating him. It has been said at the time that there had hatched a conspiracy to eliminate the King in which the nurse who was supervising the treatment of poisoning him during the injection which was given to him. He had announced in 1924 for the selection of Prince Ghazi, and Crown Prince of Iraq when he was ten years old Rabah.
Prince Ghazi hear the case of the death of his father contacted the British ambassador and asked him to extend his helping hand in the arrangement of the constitutional transition of power. Already been constitutional conditions in a hurry to declare the Crown Prince (Ghazi) property of the same day. In a simple ceremony attended by the Minister and the President both houses (Senate and House of Representatives) I swear by the new king at the age of 23 years was sworn in and then announced the news of his coronation on people and became the name «first King Ghazi of Iraq».
On November 29, 1934, under the law No. 44 of 1931 was issued a new paper currency bearing the image of King Ghazi.
The specifications of these coins in all respects similar to those that remained silent during the reign of King Faisal I except for carrying it on her face a picture of King Ghazi, the first heading to the left.
Not the rule of King Ghazi stable but subject to a lot of the contentions and political crises, and the young king had no interest in personal hobbies to exercise more than was spent to measure governance. On the night of 3 / 4 April 1939, an event unless the account where the car hit a King Ghazi, one of the electricity pylons close to the SFA in the Harthiya and fallen column on the head of King, where the death of term after the incident, approximately one hour was not yet reached the age of thirty.
The currencies of King Ghazi, the first also of rare coins are now sold in auction prices are expensive, especially large groups of
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