These are figures that the CBI has put out now that they are allowed to publish them. Saddam would not allow it during his reign, and we can see why.
Back in the early eighties when the oft mentioned 1:3 exchange actually existed Iraq’s money supply was probably less than 20 billion. During the eighties Saddam burned through the countries currency reserves, that destroyed the value, then as you can see, during the nineties Saddam turned on the printing presses and really put the hurting on the value of the currency. It was not us that trashed the value of their currency, that is one of the big lies that keep on circulating on dinar boards. It is totally not true.
When we invaded and they did the exchange to the current dinar…. The Swiss dinar was being used in the North… The entire rest of the country was only using two different notes. A 200 dinar note and a 10,000 dinar note. This is documented in many different places. If as the lie goes… and Iraq really had a 1:3 exchange rate at that time then Iraqis were walking around doing their business with only $600 and $30,000 dollar bills. It’s just not true.
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