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1/2 Dinar - Abu Hafs 'Umar II
| Issuer | Hafsid dynasty |
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| Year | 1346-1347 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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| Edge | Plain. |
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Abu Hafs 'Umar II ruled the Hafsid sultanate during a period of acute dynastic instability — his reign fell within a stretch of the fourteenth century when Tunis changed hands repeatedly between rival Hafsid claimants backed by competing Berber tribal factions. The half-dinar denomination served long-distance Mediterranean trade as much as internal circulation, with Hafsid gold regularly appearing in Aragonese and Genoese merchant accounts.
Album 508L places this within a tightly defined die sequence. The Hafsid minting apparatus at Tunis maintained remarkable weight standards through these fractional denominations even as political authority above it fractured.