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Libyan dinar دينار ليبي (Arabic)
1 dinar banknote of revised series 4, featuring Muammar al-Gaddafi
ISO 4217 Code	LYD
User(s)	Libya
Inflation	3.1%
Source	The World Factbook, 2006 est.
Subunit
1/1000	dirham
Symbol	LD and ل.د
Coins
Freq. used	50, 100 dirhams ¼, ½, dinar
Rarely used	1, 5, 10, 20 dirhams
Banknotes	¼, ½, 1, 5, 10, 20 dinars
Central bank	Central Bank of Libya
Website	www.cbl-ly.com

The dinar (Arabic: دينار) is the currency of Libya. Its ISO 4217 code is "LYD". The dinar is subdivided into 1000 dirham (درهم). It was introduced in 1971 and replaced the pound at par. It is issued by the Central Bank of Libya, which also supervises the banking system and regulates credit. In 1972, the Libyan Arab Foreign Bank was established to deal with overseas investment.

Until 1975, old coins denominated in milliemes (equal to the dirham) circulated. In 1975, coins were introduced in denominations of 1, 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 dirham which bore the coat of arms of the Federation of Arab Republics. These were followed in 1979 by a second series of coins, in the same denominations, which bore a design of a horseman in place of the arms. ¼ and ½ dinar coins were issued in 2004. [1] 1, 5, 10, and 20 dirahm coins are rarely used, if ever, as units of exchange. However, they still retain their status as legal tenders.

Banknotes in denominations of ¼, ½, 1, 5 and 10 dinar were introduced in 1971. 20 dinar notes were added in 2002.

The subjects depicted on the banknotes have not changed since series 2 except for the portrait of Muammar al-Gaddafi which became the new obverse design of the 1 dinar note in series 4.

Obverse, ½ dinar, issued in ca 1991, series 4 revised	Reverse, ½ dinar, issued in ca 1991, series 4 revised	Obverse, ½ dinar, issued in 2002, series 5	Reverse, ½ dinar, issued in 2002, series 5
Obverse, 1 dinar, issued in 2004, series 6	Reverse, 1 dinar, issued in 2004, series 6	Obverse, 5 dinars, issued in 2004, series 6	Reverse, 5 dinars, issued in 2004, series 6
Collection of all of above

The Libyan dinar is commonly called jni, IPA: [ʒni] (western Libyan Dialect) or jneh [ʒneh] (eastern Libyan dialect). The official name dinar is rarely used outside official circles. The official fractional unit dirham is never used in everyday talk. Garsh - a variant of the word qirsh - is used instead, with 1 garsh = 10 dirhams. One thousand dinars is stylishly called a kilo [kiːlu]. Similarly, ten dinars notes and five dinars notes are sometimes nicknamed, in younger generations male slang, tsena [tseːna] and faifa [faːifa] respectively, which are playful feminizations of the English words ten and five. Libyan currency is nicknamed by Libyans ʿOmar El-Mokhtar after the Libyan freedom fighter who is featured on the obverse of the 10 dinar note.

• Economy of Libya

• Don's World Coin Gallery - Libya
• Ron Wise's World Paper Money - Libya ^{Mirror site}
• Tables of Modern Monetary Systems by Kurt Schuler - Libya ^{Mirror site}
• The Global History of Currencies - Libya
• Global Financial Data currency histories table ( Microsoft Excel format)