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Monetary currency unit of some countries
Nations in dark green currently use the dinar. Nations in light green previously used the dinar. States of
former Yugoslavia
appear in the inset to the lower left.
The
dinar
(
) 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
????? (
d?n?r
), which was borrowed via the
Syriac
d?nar?
, itself from the
Latin
d?n?rius
.
[1]
[2]
The
modern gold dinar
is a projected
bullion
gold coin
, and as of 2019
[update]
is not issued as an official currency by any state.
History
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Silver dinar from the reign of Serbian king
Stefan Uro? I
(1243?1255).
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 "
d?n?rius
," a silver coin of
ancient Rome
, which was first minted about c. 211 BC.
The
Kushan Empire
introduced a gold coin known as the
d?n?ra
in India in the 1st century AD; the
Gupta Empire
and its successors up to the 6th century adopted the coin.
[3]
[4]
The 8th century English king
Offa of Mercia
minted copies of
Abbasid
dinars struck in 774 by Caliph
Al-Mansur
with "Offa Rex" centred on the reverse.
[5]
[6]
The
moneyer
likely had no understanding of
Arabic
as the Arabic text contains many errors. Such coins may have been produced for trade with
Islamic Spain
. These coins are called a
Mancus
, which is also derived from the
Arabic language
.
[
citation needed
]
Legal tender
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Countries with current usage
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Countries currently using a currency called "dinar" or similar:
Umayyad Caliphate
golden dinar.
As a subunit
[
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]
Countries with former usage
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Countries and regions which have previously used a currency called "dinar" in the 20th century:
See also
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References
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External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to
Dinar
.
Look up
dinero
in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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