Almoravid dinar

Almoravid dinar
الدينار المرابطي (Arabic)
	Dinar minted under Yusuf ibn Tashfin in Aghmat.

The Almoravid dinar (Arabic: الدينار المرابطي) was a gold dinar coin minted under the Almoravid dynasty in the Maghreb and Iberia.^[1]^[2] The mints that produced them were supplied by the West African gold mines south of the Sahara desert.^[1]^[3] The Almoravid dinars circulated widely beyond the reach of the empire; the Christian kingdoms of Iberia called them "marabotins" and "maravedís".^[3]

^ ^a ^b Messier, Ronald A. (1980). "Quantitative Analysis of Almoravid Dinars". Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. 23 (1/2): 102–118. doi:10.2307/3632235. ISSN 0022-4995. JSTOR 3632235.
^ Messier, Ronald A. (March 1974). "The Almoravids: West African Gold and the Gold Currency of the Mediterranean Basin". Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. 17 (1): 31–47. doi:10.2307/3596249. ISSN 0022-4995. JSTOR 3596249.
^ ^a ^b "Qantara - The Almoravid dynasty (1056-1147)". www.qantara-med.org. Retrieved 2020-05-25.

[:0-1] Messier, Ronald A. (1980). "Quantitative Analysis of Almoravid Dinars". Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. 23 (1/2): 102–118. doi:10.2307/3632235. ISSN 0022-4995. JSTOR 3632235.

[2] Messier, Ronald A. (March 1974). "The Almoravids: West African Gold and the Gold Currency of the Mediterranean Basin". Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. 17 (1): 31–47. doi:10.2307/3596249. ISSN 0022-4995. JSTOR 3596249.

[:1-3] "Qantara - The Almoravid dynasty (1056-1147)". www.qantara-med.org. Retrieved 2020-05-25.

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