Currency
The currency of Jordan is the Jordanian Dinar - JOD or JD. It is also called "leerah" in the spoken language; you can hear it every day at the market. 1 dinar is divided into 100 Qirsh (also called Piaster’s) or 1000 fils. Although the fils no longer exist as physical coin, you still see price tags in shops like: The exchange rate of the Jordanian Dinar to the US dollar is fixed at USD 1 = JD 0.708