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In a bid to bring back the dinar, Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) has minted its own coins.

ISIL said in 2014 that it was intent on reinstating the golden dinar and silver dirham in its areas of control to replace liras. The dinar was used throughout the early days of Islam in the Arabian Peninsula (circa 634 CE).

ISIL says the exchange rate for the coins is $139 for one gold dinar and $1 for one silver dirham.

The terror group has said it planned to distribute the currency to free Muslims from the “satanic global economic system.”

Abu Ibrahim Raqqawi, an anti-ISIL activist and founder of “Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently,” tweeted photos of the gold currency and commented the coins would soon be put into use.

Arabic inscriptions on the coins read: “The Islamic State” and “A caliphate based on the doctrine of the prophet.”

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