NEW YORK – Forget the printing press. In readying for the rollout of Islamic State’s new money, goldsmiths and silver smelters have been toiling away.
The jihadi group on Saturday touted “the return of the gold dinar” in an hourlong video issued by its media wing, al Hayat. Islamic State’s policymaking 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.
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