The dinar is the principal currency unit in several countries and was used historically in several more.

The modern dinar's historical antecedents are the gold dinar, the main coin of the medieval Islamic empires, first issued in AH 77 (696–697 AD) by Caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan. The word is derived from the silver denarius coin of ancient Rome, first minted about 211 BC.

 
Silver dinar from the reign of Serbian king Stefan Uroš I (1243–1276).
The English word "dinar" is the transliteration of the Arabic دينار (dÄ«nār), which was borrowed via the Syriac dÄ«narā from the Greek δηνάριον (denárion), itself from the Latin dēnārius.

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