Islamic Sate (IS) has announced the creation of a new currency in gold, silver and copper, featuring a world map, including the Americas, where the group said its reign will reach. The group said its own dinars and dirhams will hurt the dollar and the …
Islamic State's policymaking Shura Council last year tasked its Beit al Mal, or treasury, with minting the coins, which come in several denominations made of gold, silver and copper. The currency is meant to break the shackles of “the capitalist …
Produced by the Islamic State's Al Hayat Media, the extremist Sunni group positioned itself as leading the fight against fiat currency by minting caliphate gold, silver and bronze coins. It named them after historical Islamic caliphate coins: the gold …
Forget the printing press. In readying for the rollout of Islamic State's new money, goldsmiths and silver smelters have been toiling away. The jihadist group on Saturday touted “the return of the gold dinar” in an hour-long video issued by the al …
CAIRO — The leader of the Islamic State group has ordered the terror organization to start minting gold, silver and copper coins for its own currency — the Islamic dinar. A website affiliated with the group posted the order late Thursday, saying …
The leader of the Islamic State group has ordered the terror organization to start minting gold, silver and copper coins for its own currency – the Islamic dinar. A website affiliated with the group posted the order Friday, saying ISIS leader Abu Bakr …
Some questioned how the Islamic State, even with its profits from oil smuggling, hostage ransoming and stealing, could accrue enough gold and silver to produce coins for mass circulation. Others said the minting of such coins, in what is essentially a …
The leader of the Islamic State group has ordered the organization to start minting gold, silver and copper coins for its own currency: the Islamic dinar. A website affiliated with the group posted the order late Thursday, saying IS leader Abu Bakr al …
The announcement – which included images of three types of coins in gold, copper and silver – drew skepticism from experts, who doubted that the Islamic State could arrange a system to mint and issue a modern currency. But interviews with dealers in …
ATLANTA – Islamic State announced last week that it planned to start minting its own coin, including a gold dinar, a silver dirham, and a copper “feloos” for small change. The jihadist group and its leader, the self-proclaimed “caliph” Abu Bakr al …
This image posted on a militant website on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows renderings of a 20 copper feloos coin, a new coin that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State …
Islamic State announced last week that it planned to start minting its own coin, including a gold dinar, a silver dirham, and a copper “feloos” for small change. The jihadist group and its leader, the self-proclaimed “caliph” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi …
The Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The leader of the Islamic State group has ordered the terror organization to start minting gold, silver and copper coins for its own currency — the Islamic dinar. A website affiliated with the group posted the order …
The Islamic State (IS) terrorist organisation is planning to start minting its own coins of gold, silver and copper and call them the Islamic Dinar, reports USA Today. A website affiliated with the group posted the order late Thursday, saying Islamic …
CAIRO – Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State group, has ordered the terrorist organization to start minting gold, silver and copper coins for its own currency — the Islamic dinar. A website affiliated with the group posted the order …
This image posted on a militant website on Thursday, shows renderings of a 20 copper feloos coin. The Arabic on the left image shows 20 for the first line and 1436 (Islamic year) for the second. The Arabic on the right image shows the Islamic State for …
CAIRO (AP) — The leader of the Islamic State group has ordered the terror organization to start minting gold, silver and copper coins for its own currency — the Islamic dinar. A website affiliated with the group posted the order late Thursday, saying …
The currency of the Islamic State, which is known as the world's wealthiest terror organization, will include seven coins: two gold, three silver and two copper. The move is "purely dedicated to God" and will remove Muslims from the "global economic …
A rendering of a 5 gold dinar coin, which was posted to a website affiliated with Islamic State. The Arabic on the left image shows 5 for the first line and 1436 (Islamic year) for the second. The Arabic on the right image shows the Islamic State for …
The militant group's “Treasury Department” announced Thursday that it would soon begin minting its own silver, gold and copper coins. And with that statement, the official Islamic State Financial System has been launched. The currency will free ISIS …