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Dinar

Monetary currency unit of some countries

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 دينار (dīnār), which was possibly borrowed via the Syriac dīnarā from the Latin dēnārius. or from the Arabic root däyn meaning debt.

The modern gold dinar is a projected bullion gold coin, and is not issued as an official currency by any state.

History

The modern dinar's historical antecedents are the Eastern Roman silver denarius (greek δηνάριο - "dinario"), and 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 Kushan Empire introduced a gold coin known as the dīnāra in India in the 1st century AD; the Gupta Empire and its successors up to the 6th century adopted the coin.

The 8th-century English king Offa of Mercia minted imitations of Abbasid dinars struck in 774 by Caliph al-Mansur with "Offa Rex" centred on the reverse. 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.

Legal tender

Countries with current usage

Countries currently using a currency called "dinar" or similar:[[File:Dinar of Abd al-Malik, AH 75.jpg|thumb|240px|[[Umayyad Caliphate]] golden dinar.]]

Countries	Currency	ISO 4217 code
Algeria	Algerian dinar	DZD
Bahrain	Bahraini dinar	BHD
Iraq	Iraqi dinar	IQD
Jordan	Jordanian dinar	JOD
Kuwait	Kuwaiti dinar	KWD
Libya	Libyan dinar	LYD
North Macedonia	Macedonian denar	MKD
MKN (1992−1993)
Serbia	Serbian dinar	RSD
CSD (2003–2006)
Tunisia	Tunisian dinar	TND

As a subunit

of the Iranian rial

Countries with former usage

Countries and regions which have previously used a currency called "dinar" in the 20th century:

Countries	Currency	ISO 4217 code	Used	Replaced by
Abu Dhabi	Bahraini dinar	BHD	1966–1973	United Arab Emirates Dirham
Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina	Bosnia and Herzegovina dinar	BAD	1992–1998	Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark
Cornwall	Cornish Dynar		900 – 960	GBP
Croatia	Croatian dinar	HRD	1991–1994	Croatian kuna
Iran	Iranian rial was divided into at first 1250 and then 100 dinars
South Yemen	Yemeni dinar	YDD	1965–1990	Yemeni rial
Yemen	1990–1996
Sudan	Sudanese dinar	SDD	1992–2007	Sudanese pound
Kingdom of YugoslaviaSFR YugoslaviaFR Yugoslavia	Yugoslav dinar	YUF (1945–1965)
YUD (1965–1989)
YUN (1990–1992)
YUR (1992–1993)
YUO (1993)
YUG (1994)
YUM (1994–2003)	1918–2003	Serbian dinar

References

''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'', Second edition, 1989, ''s.v.'' "dinar"; online version November 2010
(2001). "The Arabic Language". Edinburgh University Press.
(2009). ["Gold Coins of the World: From Ancient Times to the Present"]({{Google books). Coin & Currency Institute.
Mookerji, Radhakumud. (2007). "The Gupta Empire". Motilal Banarsidass.
"Coin | British Museum".
link. (2023-08-12 by Philip Grierson, p. 330.)
"THE GOLD "MANCUS" - jstor".

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