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Cordoban dinar-dirham accounting

Cordoban dinar-dirham accounting: a historical unit of account.

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Ibn Hayyan's famine account states Cordoban wheat prices in dinar-dirham duhl arbaʿin. [1]

A December 973 monthly pension is stated as 200 dinars of this reckoning. [2]

Ibn al-Attar's formulary retains this accounting terminology in Cordoban notarial practice. [3]

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  1. Pedro Chalmeta · El dirham arbaʿīnī, duḫl, qurṭubī, andalusī: su valor, Acta Numismàtica 16 (1986), 113–126 C1913 ↗
  2. Pedro Chalmeta · El dirham arbaʿīnī, duḫl, qurṭubī, andalusī: su valor, Acta Numismàtica 16 (1986), 113–126 C1914 ↗
  3. Pedro Chalmeta · El dirham arbaʿīnī, duḫl, qurṭubī, andalusī: su valor, Acta Numismàtica 16 (1986), 113–126 C1915 ↗

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“Cordoban dinar-dirham accounting.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/CUR-V31-CORDOBAN-DINAR-DIRHAM.html

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