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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 ...
The modern dinar's historical antecedents are the gold dinar and the silver dirham, the main coin of the medieval Islamic empires, first issued in AH 77 (696–697 AD) (Late Antiquity) by Caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan. The word "dinar" derives from the Latin word "dēnārius," a silver coin of ancient Rome, which was first minted about c. 211 BC.
The dinar (Serbian: динар, pronounced; paucal: dinara / динара; abbreviation: DIN and дин ; 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
Ajuran currency; Aksumite currency; Mogadishu currency; Dollar – Rhodesia; Dinar – Sudan; Ekwele (Ekuele) – Equatorial Guinea; Escudo. Angolan escudo; Mozambican escudo; Portuguese Guinean escudo
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 ...
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 .
Dinar (دينار) Algerian dinar – Algeria; Bahraini dinar – Bahrain; Bosnia and Herzegovina dinar – Bosnia and Herzegovina; Croatian dinar – Croatia; Iraqi dinar – Iraq; Jordanian dinar – Jordan, Palestinian territories; Kelantanese dinar – Kelantan; Krajina dinar – Krajina; Kuwaiti dinar – Kuwait; Libyan dinar – Libya
Pages in category "Dinar" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. ... Modern gold dinar; P. Portuguese dinheiro; R. Republika Srpska dinar; S.