2135 | Al Andalus coins

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TAIFAS DEL CALIPHATE, Anonymous attributed to Toledo. Dinar fraction. (El. 0.26g/10mm). S/D. (Codera and Zaidin (1897) 1047 ter; Ibrahim, Cantó (2003) Supplement to the Kingdoms of Taifas, no. 169, French no. 362var). Anv: لااله الاالله / محمدرسول الله. Rev: الله / الحو ل و القوة. (For God / power and Strength). Very Fine. Very scarce.

This curious and beautiful variant of the distribution of the IA divides the 'Shahada' into 'two parts'. The first, ('lā ilāh il/lā Allāh) is contained within the hexagram of the seal of Solomon, while the second, (Muḥammad/rasūl/Allāh) is found triangulating the first one, following the line of one of the triangles that forms the aforementioned seal.

Codera attributed this piece to Almería "because it had some similarity with some examples of number 1047" by Vives, although the treasure where those examples appeared also contained other different ones from the taifas of Toledo, Badajoz, Córdoba, Valencia, Dénia and Zaragoza. . However, preceding the intuition of Dr. Alber Cantó, it would be David Francés who would give a more logical reasoning to its origin, in his book ''On legitimacy, successions and their reflection in Andalusian coinage'' page 137-139 , justifying the attribution of this piece to Toledo, during the presence of 'Umar al-Mutawakkil king of Badajoz.