<Tr> <Th> Source </Th> <Td> The World Factbook, 2009 est . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Pegged with </Th> <Td> US dollar US $= 0.708 JOD (buy) US $= 0.710 JOD (sell) </Td> </Tr> <P> The Jordanian dinar (Arabic: دينار ‎; code: JOD; unofficially abbreviated as JD) has been the currency of Jordan since 1950 . </P> <P> The Jordanian dinar is also widely used alongside the Israeli shekel in the West Bank . The dinar is divided into 10 dirham, 100 qirsh (also called piastres) or 1000 fulus . </P>

The money used in jordan is called the dinar