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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 359496, member: 4626&quot;]The late Sadaam notes (around 2002 or so) seemed to have a lot of problems with serial mismatches to the point that ones with that error seem almost more common than ones without it, especially on the 10,000 dinar note.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think they were counterfeited heavily... the high denomination notes did have some protective features, like a security strip and a watermark of Sadaam.</p><p><br /></p><p>Post-Sadaam the Iraqi dinar has such a low value I can&#039;t see why anyone would bother to counterfeit them... Iraq&#039;s economy is a bit more stable now but there&#039;s still about 1200 dinars to the US dollar currently (right before and after the invasion it was like 15,000 though so it is stabilising somewhat).&nbsp; For comparison&#039;s sake, just before the first Gulf War (around 1990) the Iraqi dinar was worth about 3 US dollars.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you post some pictures I, and others here, could tell you if there&#039;s any obvious signs of them being counterfeit.&nbsp; Don&#039;t estimate the power of coincidence either... if you&#039;ve got a lot of notes from the same source it wouldn&#039;t be unusual to end up with some sequential ones.</p><p><br /></p><p>Note that the Sadaam notes are no longer legal tender... I think the Iraqi government was excahnging new notes for them for a time, but the grace period&#039;s probably over by now... so they only have value as collectibles (probably more valuable that way then the currency exchange; more of them were sold as souviniers than turned in probably lol...).&nbsp; The post-Sadaam notes look very similar to the old designs usually, just minus Sadaam.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you&#039;re having trouble with Arabic numbers, try <a href="http://www2.ignatius.edu/faculty/turner/arabic/anumbers.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www2.ignatius.edu/faculty/turner/arabic/anumbers.htm" rel="nofollow">here</a> to help.&nbsp; (What a lot of people call &quot;Arabic numerals&quot; are in fact Indian lol...).&nbsp; Note that while Arabic script is normally read right to left, Arabic numbers are read left to right.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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