Marinid gold dinars with kufic inscriptions, Tripolotania, 13th – 15th c. AD, Ø 32 mm; 4.65 g.

Coins

Material: Metals | Type: Currency/Medals/Postage stamps | Countries: Libya

  • Period

    1st millennium BC – AD 1551

  • Red List

    Emergency Red List – Libya

Category

Coins
Copper, bronze, silver or gold.

Graeco-Roman period: With portraits of royals, deities standing or sitting, animals or silphium plant and Greek or Latin inscriptions surrounding different motifs.

Islamic Era: Dinars with Arabic inscriptions inside a circle or square, may be surrounded with symbols
© National Museum of Tripoli (As-Saraya al-Hamra) / Hafed Abdouli