IRAQ 500 fils 1982 palm trees

DescriptionIn 1982 the government looked at its coins for the year and said “Hey, they spelled the denomination wrong.” It was the British Royal Mint engravers, making another mistake in Arabic orthography. Filsaan is plural. Fals is singular. So, two varieties.“Middle East” is, generally spealing, Morocco east to Afghanistan, Sudan in the south to Turkey in the north.By “Modern World Coins” we mean here, generally, the round, flat, shiny metal objects that people have used for money and still do. “Modern,” though, varies by location. There was some other way they were doing their economies, and then they switched over to “modern coins,” then they went toward paper money, now we’re all going toward digital, a future in which kids look at a coin and say “What’s that?” We’ll say: “We used to use those to buy things.” Kids will ask “How?” The main catalog reference is the Standard Catalog of World Coins, to which the KM numbers refer.