1 Dinar Kuwait. Eventually privately contracted crews extinguished the fires at a total cost of US$15 billion to Kuwait By that time however the fires had burned for approximately 10 months causing widespread pollution in Kuwait The Kuwaiti Oil Minister estimated between twentyfive and fifty million barrels of unburned oil from damaged facilities pooled to create approximately 300 oil.
The dinar was introduced in 1960 to replace the Gulf rupee equal to the Indian rupeeIt was initially equivalent to one pound sterling As the rupee was fixed at 1 shilling 6 pence that resulted in a conversion rate of 13 + 1 ⁄ 3 rupees to the dinar When Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990 the Iraqi dinar replaced the Kuwaiti dinar as the currency and large quantities of banknotes were stolen.