Almohads. Anonymous, in the name of the Mahdi. Tunis. Millares. This type of Christian imitation of the Almohad dirhem in the name of the Mahdi was minted in the territories of the Catalan-Aragonese crown and southern France for use in trade with the Muslim states of North Africa. Two minor minting cracks. Large flan. Fine example. Very rare. 1,28 g. (EBC).
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Gobernadores. Tipo posterior a la reforma
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Governors. AH 114. Post-reform type. Al Andalus. Dirhem. (V. 28) (Fro. 1). Almost square bismillah. Slight surface incrustations of chlorargyrite. Very rare; we have not had any other example before. 2,77 g. MBC+.
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Almoravids. Ali ibn Yusuf. Qurtuba (Córdoba). Quirat. (V. 1706) (Hazard 965) (FBM. Cc1). Rev.: ?wv! ?R~ over the IIA, in a cartouche as a countermark. This coin is an important epigraphic document that gives us in IA the earliest use of the naskhi script in al Andalus, a singular use that would not reappear in the coinage until almost three decades later. Very rare. 0,71 g. EBC-.
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Almoravid Taifas. Ahmad ibn Qasi 'Abd Allah. Martula (Mértola). 1/2 quirat. (FBM. Fa 7, same example) (IV Jarique, page 207, no. 40, same example). Extremely rare. 0,32 g. EBC.
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Taifas. Hammundids. AH (...)6. Yahya ibn 'Ali. Madinat Sabta (Ceuta). Fraction of dinar. (V. 784) (Prieto 85n) ("Ceuta musulmana" 130a) (Ariza Ya11.15). Obv.: (#n) / yI. Rev.: @?cv! ®? / HèC?!. The syllable #n of the obverse is missing on this piece, as is the case with other coins of the same series, such as the dinar and the dirhem of the year 418. (see Vives 774 and 775). Very rare. 1,36 g. MBC/MBC-.
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Almohads. Abd al-Mu'min. Madinat Ishbiliya (Seville). 1/2 dinar. (V. 2058) (Hazard 470). "Medina" above, and "Seville" below on reverse. Traces of having been mounted, but not worn. Very attractive. Rare. 2,29 g. (EBC-).
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Governors. Transition coins. Early times of the conquest. Transitional issues in Latin. Indiction dinar. Slightly off-center, date and mint not readable. Rare. 2,96 g. MBC+.
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Califato. Hisham II, 1r reinado (aH 366-399)
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Caliphate. AH 386. Hisham II. Al Andalus. 1/3 dinar. (V. 530). Obv.: 1Dkz. Rev.: Dz#b. Area of weak strike. Nice. Original luster. Undoubtedly rarer than the dinar, we have not had any example of 1/3 dinar before. 1,09 g. EBC.*This item cannot be exported (it has been declared BIC).
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Taifa of Saragossa. Banu Tudjib. AH 428. Mu'izz al-Dawla Mundir II ibn Yahya. Saraqusta (Saragossa). Fraction of dinar. (V. 1141) (Prieto 230). Irregular flan, but very clear mint and date. Extremely rare especially in this condition. 0,44 g. MBC/MBC+.
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Almoravids. Anonymous. Qurtuba (Córdoba). 1/4 of quirat or 1/8 of dirhem. (V. 2013) (FBM. L2, same example) (S.Album D407) The coin has the following written on it: "this is one eighth of a dirhem" on obverse, and "from the mint of Cordoba", on reverse. Possibly minted during the Hamdin period. Its weight amounts to 1/4 quirat, see the interesting comment by Federico Benito de los Mozos in MANQUSO 7, May 2020, pages 1 and 2. 0.24 g. MBC+.
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Almoravid Taifas. Ibn Malik. Quirat. (V. 1919) (FBM. K2) (II Jarique 1988, page 83, no. 154). Unknown person coining in the name of the Abbasid Caliph. Ornamental kufic calligraphy on obverse, naskhi on reverse. Very rare. 1 g. MBC+.
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Almohads. Abu Ya'qub Yusuf. Madinat Tilimsan (Tlemecén). 1/2 dinar. (V. missing) (Hazard 483). With the title of "Amir al-Adjal". Punched on reverse. Extremely rare. 2,30 g. MBC.
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Governors. Transition coins. AH 95. Early times of the conquest. Transitional issues in Latin. Indiction dinar. (LFD 1985 page 99, nº 23). Obv.: IN¡C X(...) in the center, (...)¡FRT IN ]1N ANN XCV around. Rare. 3,60 g. MBC.
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Governors. Transition coins. AH 93. Early times of the conquest. Transitional issues in Latin. Indiction dinar. (V. 2). Obv.: IN¡C XI in the center, NSL¡(FE)RTIN SPN AN XCIII around. Well-centered, almost the whole legend is clearly readable. Rare. 4,34 g. MBC+.
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Almohad taifas. Anonymous. Sabta (Ceuta). 1/16 dinar. (NVMISMA 237, page 301, no. 29). Attributed to this period based on the coin's epigraphy. Very rare. 0,23 g. MBC+.
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Almoravids. Ali ibn Yusuf. Quirat. (FBM. Cc15, same example) (NVMISMA 237, page 297, no. 15, same example). The expression ?v! ?Fcv!, "The power is God's", does not appear in Vives for any period. Very rare. 0,93 g. EBC-.*This item cannot be exported (it has been declared BIC).
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Almoravid Taifas. Muhammad ibn 'Ali ibn al-Hadjam. Sharish (Jerez). Quirat. (V. 1989) (FBM. J6, same example) (Actas II Jarique 1988, page 71, no. 34). The mint of Sharish (Jerez), as already suggested by Antonio Delgado, is probably Jerez de los Caballeros located south of Badajoz and west of Zafra. Extremely rare, very few known examples. 0,89 g. EBC-.
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