c1980s - 2003 Saddam Hussein-era Iraqi Martyr's Commemorative Plaque / Death Penny Medal

Iraq Martyr's Death Medal / Plaque. The plaque features the Martyr Monument (Al-Shaheed) which includes a helmet and Iraqi flag over a tomb, a tree branch symbolising life, and a rifle (AK47). The plaque was a Government idea to honour Iraq soldiers killed in action. Gilded metal. VGC.

Inscriptions: the upper reads part of a Quranic verse (Surah All-e-Imran 3:169) "and never think of those who have been killed in the cause of Allah is dead. Rather, they are alive with their Lord, receiving provision".

The inscription at the bottom " The martyr's are the most generous of us all" (Saddam Hussein).

Saddam Hussein (28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the president of Iraq from 1979 until he was overthrown in 2003 during the U.S. invasion of Iraq. He previously served as the vice president from 1968 to 1979 and also as the prime minister from 1979 to 1991 and later from 1994 to 2003. A leading member of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, he was a proponent of Ba'athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism. The policies and ideologies he championed are collectively known as Saddamism.

Ba'athist Iraq, officially the Iraqi Republic (1968–1992) and later the Republic of Iraq (1992–2003), was the Iraqi state between 1968 and 2003 under the one-party rule of the Iraqi regional branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. The regime emerged as a result of the 17 July Revolution which brought the Ba'athists to power, and lasted until the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

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