Dinar

Nations in dark green currently use the dinar. Nations in light green previously used the dinar. Yugoslavian states are inset to the lower left.

The official currencies of nine countries are known as the dinar or denar.

The history of the dinar dates to the gold dinar, an early Islamic coin corresponding to the Byzantine denarius auri. The modern gold dinar is a modern bullion gold coin.

Etymology[edit]

Serbian silver Dinar during reign of Stephen Uroš I of Serbia in 13th century

The word "dinar" in English is borrowed from the Arabic دينار (dīnār), which in turn was borrowed from Greek δηνάριον, itself from Latin dēnārius (q.v.).^[1]

Legal tender[edit]

100 Serbian dinars bearing the likeness of Nikola Tesla.

Countries currently using the dinar or similar[edit]

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
Macedonia	Macedonian denar	MKN (1992–1993) MKD (1993− )
Serbia	Serbian dinar	RSD
Tunisia	Tunisian dinar	TND

Countries and regions which have previously used the dinar[edit]

A mancus or gold dinar of the English king Offa of Mercia (757–796), a copy of the dinars of the Abbasid Caliphate (774). It combines the Latin legend OFFA REX with Arabic legends. (British Museum)

Countries	Currency	ISO 4217 code	Used	Replaced by
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Bosnia and Herzegovina dinar	BAD	1992–1998	Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark
Croatia	Croatian dinar	HRD	1991–1994	Croatian kuna
Iran	Iranian rial was divided into at first 1250 and then 100 dinars
Serbian Krajina	Krajina dinar	n/a	1992–1994	Croatian kuna
Republika Srpska	Republika Srpska dinar	n/a	1992–1998	Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark
South Yemen	South Yemeni dinar	YDD	1965–1990	Yemeni rial
Sudan	Sudanese dinar	SDD	1992–2007	Sudanese pound
Kingdom of Yugoslavia  SFR Yugoslavia  FR Yugoslavia	Yugoslav dinar	YUD (1965–1989) YUN (1990–1992) YUR (1992–1993) YUO (1993) YUG (1994) YUM (1994–2003)	1918–2003	n/a

The 8th century English king Offa of Mercia minted copies of Abbasid dinars struck in 774 by Caliph Al-Mansur with "Offa Rex" centered on the reverse.^[2][3] The moneyer visibly had no understanding of Arabic as the Arabic text contains many errors. Such coins may have been produced for trade with Islamic Spain.

See also[edit]

• Currency
• Economy of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
• Islamic gold dinar
• Kedahan dinar
• Kelantanese dinar
• List of circulating currencies
• Middle East economic integration
• Perakese dinara

References[edit]

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