ALMORAVIDES, Ali bin Yusuf. Dinar. (Au. 3.79g/24mm). 504H. Murcia (Mursiya). (Vives 1627; Hazard 267; CMA (Eustache) 437). Good Very Fine. Weird.
Ceutí, second emir of the Almoravids and son of Yusuf Ibn Tashfin, founder of the dynasty,
He was a contemporary of the three peninsular Alfonsos: Alfonso VII of Castile and Leon, Alfonso I of Aragon, the battler, and Alfonso I of Portugal. With him, the Almoravids reached their maximum territorial expansion in the Iberian Peninsula, conquering Zaragoza and reaching the Balearic Islands. It is just at the moment of maximum expansion when its power began to progressively decline until, due to the push of both Christians and Almohads, it disappeared.
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