Dinar facts for kids

For the place in Afghanistan, see Dinar, Afghanistan.

     States that currently use the dinar.      States that previously (in their lifetime) used the dinar.

The Dinar is the name of the official currency in several countries. The word dinar (Arabic: دينار, Serbian: динар / dinar, Macedonian: денар) is derived from denarius, a Roman currency.

Legal tender

Countries currently using the dinar

Countries	Currency	ISO 4217 code
Algeria	Algerian dinar	DZD
Bahrain	Bahraini dinar	BHD
Jordan	Jordanian dinar	JOD
Kuwait	Kuwaiti dinar	KWD
Iraq	Iraqi dinar	IQD
Macedonia	Macedonian denar	MKD
Libya	Libyan dinar	LYD
Serbia	Serbian dinar	RSD
Tunisia	Tunisian dinar	TND

Countries which have previously used the dinar

• Abu Dhabi: the Abu Dhabi dinar or Bahraini dinar which have been 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

Images for kids

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  Silver dinar from the reign of Serbian king Stefan Uroš I (1243–1276).

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  Umayyad Caliphate Golden Dinar.

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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)