Commemorative Coin

'The restoration of the historic of Babylon'- Iraq Babylon Coin Set includes error coin:

In 1983 Saddam Hussein started rebuilding the city of Babylon on top of the old ruins. Because of this, artifacts and other finds may well be under the city by now. He invested in both restoration and new construction."

So it looks as though he made a bad job of it and probably never finished it. However, before the project began, a one year coin series was issued, dated 1982, with the theme of "The Restoration of Babylon".

The ruins of the Ishtar Gate in 1931

5 Fils (Babylon-Ruins), km159, 1982

The modern reconstruction of the Ishtar Gate

10 Fils (Babylon-Ruins), km160, 1982

Detail from the Ishtar Gate: A lion, symbol of the goddess Ishtar, is featured on the 25 fils

25 Fils, km161, 1982

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Detail from the Ishtar Gate: an aurochs, a symbol of the storm god Adad, is featured on the 50 fils

50 Fils, km162, 1982

The stele of Hammurabi's code of laws, held in the Louvre Museum

Detail from the upper part of the stele

250 Fils, km163, 1982

The statue of the lion of Babylon

500 Fils (Lion of Babylon), km168, 1982

500 Fils (Filsan - Lion of Babylon), km168a, 1982 (Error) 

Filsan, (Error)

1 Dinar (Babylon Tower), km164, 1982

The reverse of the 1 dinar coins features the Etemenanki ("temple of the foundation of heaven and earth"), a ziggurat dedicated to Marduk in the city of Babylon of the 6th century BCE Neo-Babylonian dynasty. Originally seven stories in height, little remains of it now except ruins