Algeria: Dinars

Algeria is the largest country in Africa, the Arab world, and the Mediterranean Basin.Its capital and most populous city is Algiers.The country's name derives from the city of Algiers.The territory of today's Algeria was the home of many ancient cultures and civilizations, including Aterian and Capsian cultures. Its area has known many empires and dynasties, including ancient Berber Numidians, Carthaginians, Romans, Vandals, Byzantines, Arab Umayyads, Fatimids, Berber Almohads and later Turkish Ottomans.Algeria, whose economy is reliant on petroleum, has been an OPEC member since 1969.Algeria has the 10th-largest reserves of natural gas in the world and also ranks 16th in oil reserves.

Here are the Algerian coins I have in my collection.

100 Santeem = 1 Dinar

100 Dinars 

Years: 1413-1432 (1992-2011)

Calendar: Islamic

Metal: Bi-Metallic Aluminium-bronze center in Stainless Steel ring

Weight: 11 gm

Diameter: 29.5 mm

Thickness: 2.3 mm

Obverse: A head of an Arabian horse looking right is accompanied with the year in the Islamic and the Gregorian calendars and surrounded with an adornment
Lettering: 2010 1431

Reverse: The facial value is written with a palm tree for the number 1, the obverse of the coin for the first 0 and its symmetry for the second 0. It is surrounded with the Arabic inscription "Bank of Algeria" (on top) and "dinars" (underneath) and two stars. The palm tree is inscribed inside a pattern shaped like a door from the southern Algeria.

Arabian Horse

The Arabian or Arab horse is a breed of horse that originated on the Arabian Peninsula. With a distinctive head shape and high tail carriage, the Arabian is one of the most easily recognizable horse breeds in the world. It is also one of the oldest breeds, with archaeological evidence of horses that resemble modern Arabians dating back 4,500 years. Throughout history, Arabian horses spread around the world by both war and trade, used to improve other breeds by adding speed, refinement, endurance, and strong bone. Today, Arabian bloodlines are found in almost every modern breed of riding horse.

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