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Umayyad gold Dinar, minted 692 C.E., obverse with three figures, reverse with altered "cross on steps" design. The gold coins were first struck to the contemporary standard of 4.4 grams and with one or more Arabic Standing figures on the obverse and an Arabic legend on the reverse. Dated coins exist from 680 (AH 74) and are named as 'Dinars'.
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 .
In 1949, banknotes were issued by the Jordan Currency Board in denominations of 1 ⁄ 2, 1, 5, 10 and 50 dinars. They bore the country's official name, "The Hashemite Kingdom of the Jordan". [5] 20 dinar notes were introduced in 1977. The 50 dinar note was redesigned and the 1 ⁄ 2 dinar notes were replaced by coins in 1999.
The issue remained unresolved until al-Mu'izz arrived in Egypt in 973 with large quantities of gold bullion—one hundred camel-loads of millstone-shaped gold bars [47] —only then did the Fatimid dinars prevail in the Egyptian market. [52] The Mu'izzi dinars enjoyed such a good reputation that under al-Mustansir (r.
The dinar (Serbian: ... One dinar was formerly subdivided into 100 para. As of 24 August 2024, 1 US dollar is worth 104.57 dinars. History
Multiple trillions of dinars were shipped to Iraq and secured in the Central Bank [clarification needed] to exchange for Saddam dinar notes. [11] Saddam dinar notes were exchanged for the new dinars at par, while Swiss dinar notes were exchanged at a rate of one Swiss dinar = 150 new dinars.
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 ...
The 1994 dinar (ISO 4217 code: YUG) was the shortest-lived out of all incarnations of Yugoslav currency, as hyperinflation continued to intensify, [4] and only one coin (1 dinar) was issued for it. Towards the end of the 1994 dinar, the National Bank overprinted and reissued 10 million dinara banknotes from the 1992 dinar (right).