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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 3299879, member: 98035&quot;]Actually an interesting point about the Koran... I recall that there are verses in there that define the value of dinars and dirhems in terms of things like goats or sheep... certainly interesting since AFAIK the dirhem didn&#039;t exist as a coin until about a century after the Koran was first put into writing. The dinar/mithqal however was carried over from the Sassanians straight to the Arabs.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll need to do some searching, bit I found this interesting site that gives some history on the coinage reform and how the weight was selected:</p><p><a href="https://islamiccoins.ancients.info/umayyads/readingumayyadcoins.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://islamiccoins.ancients.info/umayyads/readingumayyadcoins.htm" rel="nofollow">https://islamiccoins.ancients.info/umayyads/readingumayyadcoins.htm</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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