Almohad taifas. Ahmmad ibn Muhammad al-Badji. Ishbiliya (Seville). Dirhem. (V. 2119) (Medina 209) (Hohertz 703). In this anti-Almohad issue, the name of the Mahdi has been replaced by the formula "the descendant of his uncle", in reference to al-Abbas, Muhammad's uncle and ancestor of the Abbasids. Nice. Extremely rare. 1,51 g. EBC.
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Almohads. Muhammad I. Madinat Fas (Fez). 1/2 dinar. (Hazard 477). Vives assigns this type to Muhamad ibn Yakub, an-Nasir, and Hazard attributes it to Abd al-Mumin with his heir. In reality, Abd Allah Muhamad succeeded his father and reigned for 45 days in AH 558, and the reference to Abd al-Mumin was maintained throughout the entire dynasty, so we attribute this unique type to the brief reign of Muhamad I, note that all the known mints are African. Although it is true that the title he holds on these pieces is that of "eminent prince", and not that of "Amir of the believers", it would be the only case in the dynasty in which the heir is mentioned on a coin. Minor edge crack, but very beautiful. Very rare. 2,31 g. EBC+.
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Caliphate. AH 416. Muhammad III. Al Andalus. Dirhem. (V. missing) (Prieto "Suplemento" 22). Obv.: 5#,,j!. The bismillah begins at 6 o'clock. Extremely rare. 2,47 g. MBC+/EBC-.
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Almoravids. AH 511. Ali ibn Yusuf. Mursiya (Murcia). Dinar. (Missing date in Vives, Hazard and Rodríguez Lorente) (Delgado "Láminas" page 105, no. 31, same example). 4 g. MBC+.
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Gobernadores. Moneda de Ifrikiya contemporánea
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Governors. Contemporary Ifriqiya coin. North african coinages of this period. Tlemcen. Fals. (Walker figure VII P.127, page 240). Type that Trent Jonson calls "roman/neopunic" (pages 447 and 448), assigned to the transitional series in North Africa. Green patina. Ex Gaspariño collection. Very rare. 2,36 g. BC+.
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Nasaríes de Granada. Muhammad IX (aH 821-856)
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Nasrids of Granada. Muhammad IX. Madinat Gharnata (Granada). Dinar. (V. anv. 2175, rev. 2178) ("Numismática Nasrí" 24 anv and 25 rev). Rare die combination, missing in the catalogs. Published by Tawfiq Ibrahim in the IV Jarique (Jaén, October 2000), page 49, no. 27. Scratch on obverse side, but very fine example. 4,63 g. MBC+/EBC.
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Almoravids. AH 486. Yusuf ibn Tashfin. Mursiya (Murcia). Dinar. ("Murcia musulmana" 19, same example). Rodríguez Lorente points out that the small ornament between the first line of the obverse of this piece is identical to the Ceuta piece from AH 484, which is the previous lot of this auction. Very rare. 4,12 g. EBC-.
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Califato. Hisham II, 1r reinado (aH 366-399)
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Caliphate. AH 386. Hisham II. Al Andalus. Dinar. (V. 529). Obv.: 1Dkz. Rev.: Dz#b. Retains much of the original luster. Nice. Rare in this condition. 4,76 g. EBC+.
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Emirate. AH 145. Abd al-Rahman I. Al Andalus. Dirhem. (Fro. 1). Extremely rare. 2,89 g. MBC+.*This item cannot be exported (it has been declared BIC).Daniel Eustache, on "Hesperis-Tamuda" no. 19 (1980), published the first information on this early date, at that time the oldest known of the Umayyad Emirs of al-Andalus, the example he commented on came from the excavations carried out in 1951 in the ruins of Volubilis, in northern Morocco. Our firm auctioned a similar dirham, in silver-plated copper, in December 1996, the one we present today is, probably, the third known example, of excellent metal and in a magnificent state.
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Almoravids. AH 493. Yusuf ibn Tashfin. Al-Mariya (Almeria). Dinar. (GACETA NUMISMÁTICA 93, page 29, no. 8) (Missing date in Vives and Hazard). Very rare. 4,11 g. EBC-.
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Caliphate. AH 364. Al-Hakam II. Madinat al-Zahra (Medina Azahara). Dinar. (V. 476) (Fro. 2). Rev.: Dz#b. Nice. Rare, we have only had one example. 4,52 g. MBC+.
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Almohads. Anonymous, in the name of the Mahdi. Manurca (Menorca). Dirhem. (V. 2094) (Hazard 1114) (Cru.C.G. 1673). Extremely rare. 1,42 g. MBC-.
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Taifas. Hammundids. AH 412. Yahya ibn 'Ali, in rebellion against his uncle al-Qasim. Al Andalus. Dinar. (Prieto "Suplemento" 46) (Ariza Ya1.1). The absence of an heir on the coin could mean that it was minted at the beginning of Yahya's rebellion, before he came to an agreement with his brother Idris, who was later designated as heir. 3,96 g. EBC-.
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Caliphate. AH 363. Al-Hakam II. Madinat al-Zahra (Medina Azahara). Dinar. (V. 489) (Fro. 4). This variant with five lines on each side is extraordinarily rare. 3,13 g. MBC/MBC+.*This item cannot be exported (it has been declared BIC).
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