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Dinar

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?? from the Latin d??n??rius. The modern gold dinar is a projected bullion gold coin, and as of 2019 is not issued as an official currency by any state. History 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...

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