25,000 Iraqi Dinar Note

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The front of the Iraqi Dinar 25,000-dinar note shows a Kurdish farmer holding sheaf of wheat. Tractor in background.

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The back of the Iraqi Dinar 25,000-dinar note shows 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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10,000 Iraqi Dinar Note

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The front of the Iraqi Dinar 10,000-dinar note shows 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. Also, an eminent physicist and mathematician he developed analytical geometry by establishing linkage between algebra and geometry. Alhazen's work was translated into Latin, and greatly influenced European scientific thought.

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The back of the Iraqi Dinar 10,000-dinar note shows 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).

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5,000 Iraqi Dinar Note

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The front of the Iraqi Dinar 5,000-dinar note shows Gully Ali Beg and its 800m waterfall. The 10km gully passes between Mount Kork and Mount Nwathnin, some 60km away from Shaqlawa.

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The back of the Iraqi Dinar 5,000-dinar note shows the second century desert fortress of Al-Ukhether, Hejira.

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