BAGHDAD, Oct. 4 -- The Iraq Central Bank today unveiled new bank notes bearing scenes from Iraqi life and history in place of the face of ousted president Saddam Hussein. ... the dinar. In the ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq — As the euro, yen and other major currencies surge in value against the wilting dollar, even Iraq's bantamweight upstart — the "Saddam-free" dinar — is showing unexpected ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq — The Iraq Central Bank Saturday unveiled new bank notes bearing scenes from Iraqi life and history in place of the face of ousted president Saddam Hussein. It also announced it ...

BAGHDAD — It didn’t take long Wednesday for a crowd to gather around Abdul Qadar Husan as he stood in front of Iraqi Middle Eastern Investment Bank inspecting his newly exchanged dinars. Husan ...

The Dollar and the Dinar. Iraqis Jockey to Obtain Whichever Currency Is on the Rise. June 1, 2003. By William Booth. BASRA, Iraq -- When U.S. and British forces took control of Iraq, ...

Iraq dumps 'Saddam dinars' for new cash / 10,000 tons of currency bearing Hussein's face as obsolete as he is. ... The 25, 000-dinar notes have an embedded hologram, ...

An exchange of new, Saddam-free notes for the old will begin Oct. 15 and the old currency will be out of circulation by early 2004, L. Paul Bremer, the head of the American administration, said in ...

But 10,000-dinar notes, which some view with suspicion because of reports of counterfeiting, were valued at 2,400 dinars to the dollar. Most sales are conducted with tremendous stacks of dog-eared ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq – U.S. authorities announced Monday they will begin replacing Iraq's dinar (search) in October in a currency swap that will rid the bill of the image of Saddam Hussein, months ...

DOHA, Qatar -- Amid toppled statues and paint-splattered murals, one image of Saddam Hussein endures in postwar Iraq: the stoic portrait of the former president in a suit and tie that graces ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraq's new dinar -- which replaced the note bearing the face of captured ex-dictator Saddam Hussein -- has risen sharply against the U.S. dollar over the past week. Currency ...