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  2. Dinar - Wikipedia

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    The dinar (/ d ɪ ˈ n ɑː r /) is the name of the principal currency unit in several countries near the Mediterranean Sea, with a more widespread historical use. The English word "dinar" is the transliteration of the Arabic دينار ( dīnār ), which was borrowed via the Syriac dīnarā from the Latin dēnārius .

  3. Gold dinar - Wikipedia

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    The weight of the dinar is 1 mithqal (4.25 grams or 0.137 troy ounces). The word dinar comes from the Latin word denarius, which was a silver coin. The name "dinar" is also used for Sasanid, Kushan, and Kidarite gold coins, though it is not known what the contemporary name was. The first dinars were issued by the Umayyad Caliphate. Under the ...

  4. Modern gold dinar - Wikipedia

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    Gold dinar of Abd al-Malik, AH 75, Umayyad Caliphate.. According to Islamic law, the Islamic dinar is a coin of pure gold weighing 72 grains of average barley. [citation needed] Modern determinations of weight for the "full solidus" weigh 4.44 grams at the time of Heraclius and a "light solidus" equivalent to the weight of the mithqal weighing 4.25 grams, with the silver Dirham being created ...

  5. Islamic coinage - Wikipedia

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    Islamic currency consisted of gold , silver , and copper or bronze coins, as well as their fractions and multiples. Initially these coins followed pre-Islamic patterns in iconography, but under Caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan , a distinctive Islamic dinar type was created that eschewed images and carried the Islamic profession of faith .

  6. Serbian dinar - Wikipedia

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    Silver coins were introduced in 1875, in denominations of 50 paras, 1 and 2 dinars, followed by 5 dinars in 1879. The first gold coins were also issued in 1879, for 20 dinars, with 10 dinars introduced in 1882. The gold coins issued for the coronation of Milan I coronation in 1882 were popularly called milandor (French: Milan d'Or). In 1883 ...

  7. Medieval Serbian coinage - Wikipedia

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    The first mention of a "Serbian dinar" dates back to the reign of Stefan Nemanjić in 1214. Until the fall of the Serbian Despotate in 1459, most of the Serbian rulers minted silver dinar coins. Emperor Stefan Dušan adopted the Byzantine hyperpyron (perper), a large unit of currency: the imperial tax was one perper per year per house. [1]

  8. Fatimid coinage - Wikipedia

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    The dirham was the main silver coin, which was evaluated in relation to the gold dinar and whose intrinsic measurements are generally left unmentioned in historical sources. [61] The z'aida and qat'a silver coins also appear in historical sources, but their appearance or exact nature is left unclear. [ 62 ]

  9. Islamic State dinar - Wikipedia

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    The Islamic State dinar (Arabic: دينار الدولة الإسلامية), or simply the gold dinar, [2] was the official currency of the Islamic State from 2014 to 2019. Subdivided into dirhams and fulûs , it was modelled after the historical gold dinar that was first introduced in the Muslim world during the time of the Umayyad Caliphate .