Kurdistan 5000 Dinar Fantasy Commem.

November 2024

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The Kurds in Iraq planned to hold a referendum in the fall of 2014 to vote on Kurdish independence. To commemorate the event, and the almost certain outcome of a vote for Kurdish independence, a group in the United States arranged to have this multi-color 5000 Dinar coin struck. One side of the 39mm copper nickel coin features the Kurdish flag superimposed on a map of Iraqi Kurdistan with the legend "Kurdistan Independence" in Arabic and English. The other side depicts a stylized eagle from the Kurdish arms and the legend "Republic of Kurdistan" and the date in Arabic and English The sudden rise of the Islamic State known as ISIS (IS, Da'esh, ISIL)in the summer of 2014 threatened both Kurdish and Iraqi territory and citizens. Under pressure from the United States the referendum was indefinitely delayed so that Kurdish and Iraqi soldiers could be used to fight the common threat of ISIS rather than each other. It is an attractive coin commemorating an event that never took place. (Joel Anderson Coins)
Iraqi Kurdistan planned to hold a referendum in the fall of 2014 to vote on Kurdish independence. The sudden rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant known as ISIL in the summer of 2014 threatened the Kurdish territory and people so the referendum was indefinitely delayed. This coin commemorate the event of the Iraqi Kurdistan independence referendum.