I am reading Dungeon, Fire and Sword by John Robinson about the Crusades, Saladin, The Mongolians... Aside from what would be considered war crimes by both sides, some of the time, if a prisoner was of noble birth/was ransomable, the ransom was paid in gold. Particularly, the book references the gold dinar in a couple of ransoms. Now, being that a gold dinar is 4.25 grams of 22k gold, do "gold dinars" in coin form exist from the kingdoms in the middle east of the period of 1095 - 1400-ish? THANKS!
yes, a gold arab / middle eastern dinar is factual and there are penty of examples of them: http://www.calgarycoin.com/medieval/mislam62.jpg http://www.vcoins.com/ancient/sphinx/store/catalog/1136CHG.jpg http://www.vcoins.com/ancient/sphinx/store/catalog/1356MM.jpg If you have $200-$400+ to spare you can buy one
thats what I meant, sorry. I didnt mean to have my private messaging off either, I'll look into that.
