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Message:: [QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 1141446, member: 27832"]I found <a href="http://www.gcoins.net/en/catalog/view/3628" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.gcoins.net/en/catalog/view/3628" rel="nofollow">this page</a>, which claims a mintage of 500,000. It looks like <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=rseuLmTlEZAC&pg=PA1144&lpg=PA1144&dq=iraq+1+riyal+1932+mintage&source=bl&ots=XAsx0MdRzm&sig=BnLRqlOSU9yq6K9Ms62o9K3X9L8&hl=en&ei=9DuTTeLtPM-DtwfItdxs&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=iraq%201%20riyal%201932%20mintage&f=false" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://books.google.com/books?id=rseuLmTlEZAC&pg=PA1144&lpg=PA1144&dq=iraq+1+riyal+1932+mintage&source=bl&ots=XAsx0MdRzm&sig=BnLRqlOSU9yq6K9Ms62o9K3X9L8&hl=en&ei=9DuTTeLtPM-DtwfItdxs&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=iraq%201%20riyal%201932%20mintage&f=false" rel="nofollow">this Google Books page</a> supports that figure. I saw that these have gone for $37.50 to $86 on eBay recently, which was more than I expected -- I figured they'd basically get silver value, $12 or so. I'm trying to stick to the principle of buying at bullion rates, then selling off commons and keeping the "good stuff" -- I guess this one counts as "good stuff"![/QUOTE]