Dinar (coin)

Dinar (coin)

A dinar was originally a gold coin issued by the caliph Abd al-Malik.

Although there was a dictum that solidii were not to be used outside of the Byzantine empire, there was some trade that involved these coins which then did not get re-minted by the emperors minting operations, and quickly became worn. Through the end of the 7th century, Arabic copies of solidii - dinars minted by the caliph Abd al-Malik, who had access to supplies of gold from the upper Nile - began to circulate in areas outside of the Byzantine empire. These corresponded in weight to only 20 carats, but matched with the weight of the worn solidii that were circulating in those areas at the time. The two coins circulated together in these areas for a time.Porteous 1969]

References

*cite book
author = Porteous, John
year = 1969
title = Coins in history : a survey of coinage from the reform of Diocletian to the Latin Monetary Union.
chapter = The Imperial Foundations
pages = 14-33
publisher = Weidenfeld and Nicolson
isbn = 0297178547


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