1 Dirham

ISIS began issuing physical coinage in 2015 as a deliberate ideological act — rejecting fiat currency as a tool of Western financial control and framing their silver, gold, and copper issues as a restoration of the early Islamic monetary system. The 1 Dirham was modeled on the weight standard of the Umayyad dirham, itself codified under Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan in the late 7th century.

These pieces almost certainly saw no meaningful circulation. They functioned as propaganda objects, documented extensively in ISIS publications, and most examples in collector hands were recovered from conflict zones or seized in law enforcement operations.