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Nota Bene: there is a competing page, Islamic gold dinar. These pages ought to be merged. A third page, Dinar, covers modern currencies. Aramgar ( talk) 02:38, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
According to WP:LINKSPAM, links to commercial websites are not accepted, unless very specific circumstances speak in their favour. The gold dinar is a classical coin, created in the 7th century CE. The modern privately sponsered product is of negligible importance (at best) in comparison. In this context, links to commercial websites, such as " The official producer and promoter of the Islamic Dinar and Dirham" is linkspam. I have removed it together with other similar links.
Based on the article history, it appears that there has been a trend towards conflating the classical (medieval) dinar and the modern privately sponsored commercial product. I'd like to point out that there is already an article dealing with the modern commercial product ( Islamic gold dinar). Also, dealing with the two products as a single concept is a somewhat artificial synthesis, that primarily serves to equip the modern product with a proud heritage.
If anyone wants to contribute material on the modern commercial Islamic gold dinar, by all means, do so. However, to comply with Wikipedias guidelines, the material contributed should be of such a nature that it does not turn the page into an "advertisement masquerading as an article". Much could be said about privately sponsored currencies, there is no need to copy-paste their products catalogue. Alfons Åberg ( talk) 05:22, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
The claim that minting of Dirhim (Sg.: Dirham) began 79AH is false. There are five mints known for 78AH, namely Adharbayjan, Arminiya, Bihuqubadh Al-Asfal, Al-Kufa and Shaqq Al-Taymara. These mints can be assumed to have had comparably low mintage numbers, since all of the dirhim are quite rare except for Arminiya and Al-Kufa which are still scarce.
The claim that there were 14 mints actively minting dirhim in 79AH if false. Known mints for the year 79AH are: Abarqubadh, Abrashar, Anbir, Ard, Bahurasir/Bahrusir, Bardasir, Al-Basra, Batijakhusra, Biramqubadh, "Dard" (actual reading disputed), Dasht Maysan, Dastawa, Dimashq (Damascus), Fasa, Fil or Qibal, Al-Furat, "HR" (presumably for Herat), Herat (appearing as such on the coin), Al-Hira, Istakhr, Jayy, Al-Jazira, Junday Sabur, Kaskar, Al-Kufa, Mah Al-Basra, Mah Al-Kufa, Mahi or Mahayy, Manadhir, Marw, Masabadhan, Maysan, Mihrijanqudhaq, Nahr Tira, Ramhurmuz, Al-Rayy, Sabur, Shaqq Al-Taymara, Suq Al-Ahwaz, Surraq, Al-Sus, Tustar and Al-Zawabi. Coins of the majority of these over 40 mints are considered at least rare for 79AH with a few exceptions (fist and foremost Dimashq and Al-Basra, with a few others listed as scarce). This indicates a slowly starting minting operation at a much larger scale than what could be guessed from the 14 mints mentioned in the article.
The number of mints then gradually diminishes, with a low of only three known active mints for dirhim in 86AH. Although this number eventually increases again (in addition to fluctuating with time), the bulk of later coins can be assumed to come from larger mints (first and foremost Wasit, active since 84AH, Dimashq, active since 79AH etc.) with massive minting numbers. Most years of Wasit and Dimashq are regarded as being abundantly available to collectors, hinting at the massive scale of minting operations there.
As a side note, the article mixes the description of the gold dinar with that of the silver dirhem and might more appropriately renamed to "Early Islamic Coinage" or "Post-Reform Islamic Coinage".
Reference for my claims above: "Stephen Album, Checklist of Islamic Coins, 3rd Edition. Published by Stephen Album Rare Coins, Santa Rosa, CA, USA, 2011." This is the most recent edition which added some new mints and insights on Umayyad coinage. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.171.137.235 ( talk) 00:34, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
Does anybody know the purity (fineness) of these gold coins in the course of history? Somebody told me it is low. Glatisant ( talk) 18:25, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
Please add a range of date years to the article lede.- 71.174.188.32 ( talk) 21:45, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
The page currently seems very pat, pretending that the dinar was always of an established quality and size following its initial coining. From an old source albeit, that very much does not seem to have been the case. The article should include more treatment of the later dinars and their apparent range of values from the Maghreb into India. — LlywelynII 22:04, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
This was spammed, and looks like WP:REFSPAM.
Please review WP:COI in case it applies.
Please review WP:IS and WP:RS so we can address the quality and usefulness of the publication.
To start, who is this author? -- Hipal/Ronz ( talk) 19:31, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
Please explain your edit here rather than edit war. Please read WP:BRD. DeCausa ( talk) 18:27, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 26 August 2019 and 18 December 2019. Further details are available
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Eric douglas 42.
Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT ( talk) 22:30, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
Nota Bene: there is a competing page, Islamic gold dinar. These pages ought to be merged. A third page, Dinar, covers modern currencies. Aramgar ( talk) 02:38, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
According to WP:LINKSPAM, links to commercial websites are not accepted, unless very specific circumstances speak in their favour. The gold dinar is a classical coin, created in the 7th century CE. The modern privately sponsered product is of negligible importance (at best) in comparison. In this context, links to commercial websites, such as " The official producer and promoter of the Islamic Dinar and Dirham" is linkspam. I have removed it together with other similar links.
Based on the article history, it appears that there has been a trend towards conflating the classical (medieval) dinar and the modern privately sponsored commercial product. I'd like to point out that there is already an article dealing with the modern commercial product ( Islamic gold dinar). Also, dealing with the two products as a single concept is a somewhat artificial synthesis, that primarily serves to equip the modern product with a proud heritage.
If anyone wants to contribute material on the modern commercial Islamic gold dinar, by all means, do so. However, to comply with Wikipedias guidelines, the material contributed should be of such a nature that it does not turn the page into an "advertisement masquerading as an article". Much could be said about privately sponsored currencies, there is no need to copy-paste their products catalogue. Alfons Åberg ( talk) 05:22, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
The claim that minting of Dirhim (Sg.: Dirham) began 79AH is false. There are five mints known for 78AH, namely Adharbayjan, Arminiya, Bihuqubadh Al-Asfal, Al-Kufa and Shaqq Al-Taymara. These mints can be assumed to have had comparably low mintage numbers, since all of the dirhim are quite rare except for Arminiya and Al-Kufa which are still scarce.
The claim that there were 14 mints actively minting dirhim in 79AH if false. Known mints for the year 79AH are: Abarqubadh, Abrashar, Anbir, Ard, Bahurasir/Bahrusir, Bardasir, Al-Basra, Batijakhusra, Biramqubadh, "Dard" (actual reading disputed), Dasht Maysan, Dastawa, Dimashq (Damascus), Fasa, Fil or Qibal, Al-Furat, "HR" (presumably for Herat), Herat (appearing as such on the coin), Al-Hira, Istakhr, Jayy, Al-Jazira, Junday Sabur, Kaskar, Al-Kufa, Mah Al-Basra, Mah Al-Kufa, Mahi or Mahayy, Manadhir, Marw, Masabadhan, Maysan, Mihrijanqudhaq, Nahr Tira, Ramhurmuz, Al-Rayy, Sabur, Shaqq Al-Taymara, Suq Al-Ahwaz, Surraq, Al-Sus, Tustar and Al-Zawabi. Coins of the majority of these over 40 mints are considered at least rare for 79AH with a few exceptions (fist and foremost Dimashq and Al-Basra, with a few others listed as scarce). This indicates a slowly starting minting operation at a much larger scale than what could be guessed from the 14 mints mentioned in the article.
The number of mints then gradually diminishes, with a low of only three known active mints for dirhim in 86AH. Although this number eventually increases again (in addition to fluctuating with time), the bulk of later coins can be assumed to come from larger mints (first and foremost Wasit, active since 84AH, Dimashq, active since 79AH etc.) with massive minting numbers. Most years of Wasit and Dimashq are regarded as being abundantly available to collectors, hinting at the massive scale of minting operations there.
As a side note, the article mixes the description of the gold dinar with that of the silver dirhem and might more appropriately renamed to "Early Islamic Coinage" or "Post-Reform Islamic Coinage".
Reference for my claims above: "Stephen Album, Checklist of Islamic Coins, 3rd Edition. Published by Stephen Album Rare Coins, Santa Rosa, CA, USA, 2011." This is the most recent edition which added some new mints and insights on Umayyad coinage. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.171.137.235 ( talk) 00:34, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
Does anybody know the purity (fineness) of these gold coins in the course of history? Somebody told me it is low. Glatisant ( talk) 18:25, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
Please add a range of date years to the article lede.- 71.174.188.32 ( talk) 21:45, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
The page currently seems very pat, pretending that the dinar was always of an established quality and size following its initial coining. From an old source albeit, that very much does not seem to have been the case. The article should include more treatment of the later dinars and their apparent range of values from the Maghreb into India. — LlywelynII 22:04, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
This was spammed, and looks like WP:REFSPAM.
Please review WP:COI in case it applies.
Please review WP:IS and WP:RS so we can address the quality and usefulness of the publication.
To start, who is this author? -- Hipal/Ronz ( talk) 19:31, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
Please explain your edit here rather than edit war. Please read WP:BRD. DeCausa ( talk) 18:27, 13 April 2023 (UTC)