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 دينار (ar-Latn), which was possibly borrowed via the Syriac syc-Latn from the Latin dēnārius or from the Arabic root däyn meaning debt. The modern gold dinar is a projected bullion gold coin, and As of 2019 is not issued as an official currency by any state.

• Illustration — Silver dinar from the reign of Serbian king Stefan Uroš I (1243–1255). 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 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.

Countries currently using a currency called "dinar" or similar: • Illustration — 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

• of the Iranian rial

• Arab Accounting Dinar used by the Arab Monetary Fund

Countries and regions which have previously used a currency called "dinar" in the 20th century: • Countries — Currency — ISO 4217 code — Used — Replaced by • Bahrain — 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 Yugoslavia SFR Yugoslavia FR 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