New Iraqi Dinar: Banknotes for a New Age -- Part 2
The 5,000 dinar note
The front side of the 5000 new Iraqi dinar banknote features Gully Ali Beg and its 2500 foot waterfall. The 6 mile gully passes between Mount Kork and Mount Nwathnin, some 36 miles away from Shaqlawa, in the Kurdish area. The back side shows the second century desert fortress of Al-Ukhether, Hejira.
The 10,000 dinar note
The front side of the 10,000 new Iraqi dinar banknote features Abu Ali Hasan Ibn al-Haitham (known as Alhazen to medieval scholars in the West). He was 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. The back side features Hadba Minaret, at the Great Nurid Mosque, Mosul, built 1172 A.D by Nurridin Zangi, the then Turkish ruler. The 180 foot-high minaret leans 8 feet off the perpendicular. That is how it earned its Arabic name Al-Hadba ('the humped').
The 25,000 dinar note
The illustrations on the 25,000 new Iraqi dinar banknote are new. The Central Bank chose the design concept. It features a Kurdish lady farmer holding sheaf of just-cut wheat on the front side. King Hammurabi, who wrote the first code of law in human history and founded the First Dynasty of Babylon in 1700 BC, leading Babylonia into a period of great prosperity, is depicted on the back side.
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