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The gold dinar (Arabic: ﺩﻳﻨﺎﺭ ذهب) is an Islamic medieval gold coin first issued in AH 77 (696–697 CE) by Caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan. 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.
274-93), but the Iranian variant of the obol, the dang (a Middle Persian word), was minted until the end of Kavad I's reign in the early 6th century. [4] [5] Gold coins were produced in limited amounts and were mainly minted "for purposes of publicity and to compete with Roman and Kushan gold". [2]
A fals minted in Damascus between 696 and 750 Fals of al-Ma'mun, AH 219 (834/5 CE), al-Quds ().Under the Umayyads Jerusalem was known by its Roman name Iliya Filastin ("Aelia Palaestina"), but from the time of Caliph al-Ma'mun, it was given the Islamic religious name al-Quds (meaning «holiness» or «sanctity»).
1990 Islamic Coins and Trade in the Medieval World, by Nicholas Lowick, edited by Joe Cribb (Variorum Collected Studies, Series 318) -- This contains 19 articles, arranged in 3 sections: (1) Islamic Coins in Europe; (2) Coinage of Central Asia during the 10th and 11th centuries; (3) Coin finds and hoards and the trade of the Gulf and the Indian ...
Arab-Sasanian coin issued by Ubayd Allah ibn Abi Bakra, the Umayyad governor of Sijistan, in AH 80 (698/9 CE). Crowned Sasanian-style bust right, with the bismillah and rabbi in Arabic in the outer margin. Zoroastrian fire altar flanked by attendants, star and crescent flanking flames, and pellet after mint signature on the left.
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 ...