The Gold Dinar
 

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<TABLE cellSpacing=5 cellPadding=4 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=header>Islamic Dinar And Dirham</TD></TR><TR class=Text><TD>
In the beginning the Muslims used gold and silver by weight and the dinar and dirhams that they used were made by the Persians. The first dated coins that can be assigned to the Muslims are copies of silver dirhams of the Sasanian Yezdigird III, struck during the Khalifate of Uthman, radiallahu anhu. These coins differ from the original ones in that an Arabic inscription is found in the obverse margins, normally reading "in the Name of Allah". Since then the writing in Arabic of the Name of Allah and parts of Qur'an on the coins became a custom in all mintings made by Muslims.

Under what was known as the coin standard of the Khalif Umar Ibn al-Khattab, the weight of 10 dirhams was equivalent to 7 dinars (mithqals).

In the year 75 (695 CE) the Khalif Abdalmalik ordered ....</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

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