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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 Dinar is the name of the official currency in several countries. The Gold Dinar was a coin dating back to the early days of Islam, issued by many rulers, and the Islamic gold dinar is a modern revival of it as a coin or unit of account, separate from the currencies listed below. The word dinar (Kabyle: Dinar, Arabic: دينار‎ dīnār, Serbian: динар / dinar, Macedonian: денар / denar, Kurdish: dînar) is derived from the Greek dinarion (δίνω -dino) meaning "give".^[1]^[2] The Denarius was a common Roman coin. Now is used in some Arabic-culture influenced countries.

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5 Tunisian dinars.

100 Serbian dinars.

1000 Macedonian denars

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
Republic of Macedonia	Macedonian denar	MKD
Serbia	Serbian dinar	RSD
Tunisia	Tunisian dinar	TND

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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.

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.^[3]^[4] The moneyer visibly had no understanding of Arabic as the Arabic text contains many errors. Such coins may have been produced in order to trade with Islamic Spain.

Abu Dhabi: the Abu Dhabi dinar or Bahraini dinar which were used from 1966 to 1973
Bosnia and Herzegovina: the Bosnia and Herzegovina dinar
Croatia: the Croatian dinar
Iran: the Iranian rial was divided into 100 dinars
Republic of Serbian Krajina: the Krajina dinar
Republika Srpska: the Republika Srpska dinar
South Yemen: the South Yemeni dinar
Sudan: the Sudanese dinar
Yugoslavia: the Yugoslav dinar

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^ The Romance Languages By Martin Harris, Nigel Vincent http://books.google.com/books?id=lULWOT1o0SsC&pg=PA346&dq=dinarion&ei=133_SKWwLoTkygSEn_DUBg#PPA346,M1
^ http://translate.google.com/translate_t#auto|en|%CE%B4%CE%AF%CE%BD%CF%89
^ British Museum
^ Medieval European Coinage By Philip Grierson p.330 [1]

Krause, Chester L. and Clifford Mishler (2003). 2004 Standard Catalog of World Coins: 1901–Present. Colin R. Bruce II (senior editor) (31st ed. ed.). Krause Publications. ISBN 0873495934.

[0] The Romance Languages By Martin Harris, Nigel Vincent http://books.google.com/books?id=lULWOT1o0SsC&pg=PA346&dq=dinarion&ei=133_SKWwLoTkygSEn_DUBg#PPA346,M1

[1] ttp://translate.google.com/translate_t#auto|en|%CE%B4%CE%AF%CE%BD%CF%89

[2] British Museum

[3] Medieval European Coinage By Philip Grierson p.330 [1]

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