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Imagine a world trading solely in gold and silver coins. Imagine the size of your wallet. Yet this is the ideal world envisaged by some of Malaysia’s activists championing the Islamic gold dinar and silver dirham as a new form of legal tender to replace paper money – a utopia that could see the light of day as early as the middle of next month

Can Malaysia’s Islamic gold dinar thwart capitalism? | Nazry Bahrawi | guardian.co.uk

Apparently this shariah currency will be launched 12 August 2010. 

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