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The 100-fils note of the Bahrain Currency Board was withdrawn in November 1980 and the remainder of the notes were withdrawn on 31 March 1996, remaining exchangeable until one year afterwards. [ 2 ] The third issue of notes (the second by the Bahrain Monetary Agency) with the same denominations of 1 ⁄ 2 to 20 dinars was released in March 1993 ...
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 ...
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).
In January 1994, notes were issued for 10, 100, 1,000, 5,000, 50,000, 100,000, 500,000 and 10,000,000 dinara. Owing to hyperinflation, they circulated just for a couple of weeks before the currency was abandoned in favour of the novi dinar, pegged to the Deutsche Mark as it was used parallel with dinar.
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 1 fils coin was last minted in 1985. In 1996, smaller 1 ⁄ 4 dinar coins were introduced alongside 1 ⁄ 2 and 1 dinar coins. Until 1992, coins were denominated in Arabic using fils, qirsh, dirham and dinar but in English only in fils and dinar. Since 1992, the fils and dirham are no longer used in the Arabic and the English denominations ...
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.
Paisa (also transliterated as pice, pesa, poysha, poisha and baisa) is a monetary unit in several countries.The word is also a generalised idiom for money and wealth. In India, Nepal, and Pakistan, the paisa currently equals 1 ⁄ 100 of a rupee.