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Islamic State Flips Gold Coins to Break Fed `Enslavement'
Zaid Sabah Caroline Alexander
August 30, 2015 — 3:46 AM WIB Updated on August 30, 2015 — 1:34 PM WIB
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`Return of the gold dinar' follows battlefield setbacks
Gold likely to have been seized from banks, stores, Christians
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 its media wing, al Hayat. Islamic State’s policy-making 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.