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The Libyan dinar is commonly called jni, (western Libyan Dialect) or jneh [ʒneh] (eastern Libyan dialect), derived from the name of British guinea (cf genēh جنيه for the Egyptian pound), a gold coin worth twenty-one shillings. The name dinar is rarely used outside official circles. The authorized fractional unit, the dirham, is never ...
Libya, [b] officially the State of Libya, [c] is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad to the south, Niger to the southwest, Algeria to the west, and Tunisia to the northwest, as well as maritime borders with Greece, Italy and Malta to the north.
The dinar (/ d ɪ ˈ n ɑː r /) 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 ( dīnār ), which was borrowed via the Syriac dīnarā from the Latin dēnārius .
Libyan pound (until 1971, replaced by the Libyan dinar) Malawian pound (1964 to 1970, replaced by the Malawian kwacha) Maltese pound (also known as the Maltese lira and replaced by the euro on 1 January 2008) New Brunswick pound (until 1860, replaced by the New Brunswick dollar) Newfoundland pound (until 1865, replaced by the Newfoundland dollar)
The Libyan pound was replaced by the dinar at par in 1971 following the Libyan Revolution of 1969. The Libyan pound was one of the strongest currencies in the world, with £L1=$2.80 USD. This was because of the flourishing economy and the new discovery of oil reserves, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] although a parallel market currency exchange existed which ...
Algerian dinar – Algeria; Bahraini dinar – Bahrain; Bosnia and Herzegovina dinar – Bosnia and Herzegovina; Croatian dinar – Croatia; Iraqi dinar – Iraq; Jordanian dinar – Jordan, Palestinian territories; Kelantanese dinar – Kelantan; Krajina dinar – Krajina; Kuwaiti dinar – Kuwait; Libyan dinar – Libya; Republika Srpska ...
Gold dinar of Abd al-Malik, AH 75, Umayyad Caliphate.. According to Islamic law, the Islamic dinar is a coin of pure gold weighing 72 grains of average barley. [citation needed] Modern determinations of weight for the "full solidus" weigh 4.44 grams at the time of Heraclius and a "light solidus" equivalent to the weight of the mithqal weighing 4.25 grams, with the silver Dirham being created ...
Libyan dinar; Libyan pound; T. Tripolitanian lira This page was last edited on 27 January 2020, at 00:18 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...