UAE dirham
UAE dirham: a currency still in use.
- Dates in use
- Still in use; introduction date not established here
- Currency code
- AED
- Ancestry branch
- Indian rupee
Its place in the family
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The story
The UAE Currency Board first issued UAE currency on 19 May 1973. The issuer explicitly excepts the 1, 000-dirham note, which entered circulation in January 1976. [1]
Turning points
Multiple currency unification
Qatar–Dubai riyals converted into UAE dirhams at par. The non-Abu Dhabi branch; day precision remains unresolved. [2]
Multiple currency unification
Abu Dhabi converted Bahraini dinars into ten UAE dirhams each. Territorial adoption, not replacement of Bahrain’s currency in Bahrain. [3]
Sources and evidence
- Central Bank of the UAE · Museum — Currencies in circulation in the UAE C500 ↗
- Central Bank of the UAE · Our History; Deutsche Bundesbank · Metadata on the Exchange Rate Statistics, 24 September 2025 C973 ↗
- Central Bank of the UAE · Our History; Deutsche Bundesbank · Metadata on the Exchange Rate Statistics, 24 September 2025 C974 ↗
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“UAE dirham.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/FTM000303.html