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The Islamic State dinar (Arabic: دينار الدولة الإسلامية), or simply the gold dinar, [1] 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 .
1920–41: dinars of the Yugoslav Kingdom. Until 1918, the dinar was the currency of Serbia. It then became the currency of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, circulating alongside the krone in Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, with 1 dinar = 4 kronen. The first coins and banknotes bearing the name of the Kingdom of Serbs ...
The dinar (Serbian: динар, pronounced [dînaːr]; paucal: dinara / динара; abbreviation: DIN (Latin) and дин (Cyrillic); code: RSD) is the currency of Serbia. The dinar was first used in Serbia in medieval times, its earliest use dating back to 1214. The dinar was reintroduced as the official Serbian currency by Prince Mihailo in ...
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 .
Three cases of a country using or pegging the currency of a neighbor. Currency substitution is the use of a foreign currency in parallel to or instead of a domestic currency. [1] Currency substitution can be full or partial. Full currency substitution can occur after a major economic crisis, such as in Ecuador, El Salvador, and Zimbabwe.
The dinar did not follow the devaluation of the French franc in 1958, thus the exchange rate peg was abandoned. Instead a peg to the United States dollar of 1 dinar = 2.38 dollars was established which was maintained until 1964, when the dinar devalued to 1 dinar = 1.90 dollars. This second rate was held until the dollar was devalued in 1971.
The first dinar note was the ¼ dinara (25 para) note issued in 1921 by the Ministry of the Finances of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.Starting in 1922, the National Bank of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes issued notes for 10, 100 and 1,000 dinara.
The Kuwaiti dinar (Arabic: دينار كويتي, code: KWD) is the currency of Kuwait. It is sub-divided into 1,000 fulūs. [2] As of 2023, the Kuwaiti dinar is the currency with the highest value per base unit, with KD 1 equalling US$ 3.26, [3] ahead of the Bahraini dinar with BD 1 equalling US$2.65 and Omani rial at US$2.60.