dirham

I had 5 dirham on my travel card and the trip I wanted to take costs 3 dirham.

I couldn't enter the train, because the maximum charge is 8 dirham, so I could have negative balance.

Guy came over and told me it was 20 dirham.

But their offices are in UAE so maybe dirham?

Those word are both used in the currencies of various countries around the Mediterranean - dinar (yolk) was originally a gold coin whereas dirham (white) was silver.

Moroccan dirham, another one pegged to the Euro.

Fun facts, the word dirham in Islamic empire is derived from the word drachma with the same meaning in Greek, while dinar is derived from the Roman word denarius.

And if you got caught trying to speak even like DH10 ($1) out of Morocco it's a serious crime (while you can take it in another currency, that's why you find Dirham only on Morocco).

It's worth mentioning one of my favorite language facts of all time: the word dram (small unit still used for a portion of whisky in Scotland), drachma (the pre-euro Greek currency), and dirham (the currency of Morocco) are all cognates.

For you (and even then, I doubt you went on Remote Year for the inside information on wireless connectivity...) I worked from Morocco last month, so I'd be the first to concede their internet isn't particularly good by developing world standards, but there are an awful lot of remote workers for whom a 200 dirham dongle would do the trick.

This has been (more or less) the standard since like forever, for at least several thousand of years including in major world's empires including the Greek, Persian, Roman (Rome and Byzantine), Islamic (Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid, Ottoman) and British Empire until 19th century where bimetallic currency namely silver coin (dirham) and gold coin (dinar) were pervasive.

Most currencies take their names from either units of weight or of quality: Weight: Pound, peso, mark, shekel, livre, penny, denarius (and dinar, dinero, etc., subdivision of 10), dirham (also drachma, from dram).

A fascinating excerpt: "According to Noonan, some 100,000 dirham coins, most deposited between the years 900 and 1030, have been unearthed to date in Sweden alone, and there are more than a thousand recorded individual hoards of five or more coins recorded throughout Scandinavia, the Baltic countries and Russia.