Coins of the Kingdom of Iraq 4 Fils Coin, King Faisal I, dated 1931 AD / AH 1349.

Iraq Coins 4 Fils Coin , King Faisal I, mint year 1931 AD / AH 1349

Iraq Coins 4 Fils Coin , mint year 1931 AD / AH 1349.

Iraq Coins - 4 Fils Silver Coin, King Faisal I, mint year 1931 AD / AH 1349.

Obverse: Head of King Faisal I right. "Faisal Al-awal" (Faisal the First) written right side anti-clockwise. "Malik Al-Iraq" (King of Iraq) written left anti-clockwise.

Reverse: "Al Mamlakah" (Kingdom) written above. 1931 AD year on left and AH 1349 year on right. Value (4) in center circle. "Al-Iraqiyah" (Iraq) written below.

Reference: KM-97.
Diameter: 21 mm
Material: Nickel
Weight: 4.01 gm
Mintage: 4,500,000.
Minted years: 1931 and 1933.

The monetary unit is the Iraqi dinar, divided into 1,000 fils. In 1932 Iraqi Dinar's exchange rate was approximately $4.8666 U.S. dollar.

Faisal I of Iraq

Faisal bin Hussein bin Ali al-Hashimi, (Arabic: فيصل بن حسين بن علي الهاشمي‎ Fayṣal ibn Ḥusayn; 20 May 1885 – 8 September 1933) was King of the Arab Kingdom of Syria or Greater Syria in 1920, and was King of Iraq from 23 August 1921 to 1933. He was a member of the Hashemite dynasty.

Faisal fostered unity between Sunni and Shiite Muslims to encourage common loyalty and promote pan-Arabism in the goal of creating an Arab state that would include Iraq, Syria and the rest of the Fertile Crescent. While in power, Faisal tried to diversify his administration by including different ethnic and religious groups in offices. He faced great challenges in achieving this because the region was under European - specifically French and British - control and other Arab leaders of the time were hostile to his ideas as they pursued their own political aspirations for power. In addition, Faisal’s attempt at pan-Arab nationalism may have contributed to the isolation of certain religious groups.