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1/2 Dirham - Nasir al-Din Muhammad
| Issuer | Wattasid dynasty |
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| Year | 1545-1549 |
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| Value | 1/2 Dirham (7⁄20) |
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| Obverse description | Irregular square flan struck by hand, bearing multiple lines of Arabic script in the field arranged horizontally. The legends are rendered in a bold, archaic Maghribi calligraphic style typical of late Wattasid coinage. A row of pellets forms a decorative border along the lower margin of the die area. The script fills the available field without a formal framing line, reflecting the informal character of hammered petty coinage of this period. |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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The Wattasid sultanate was in terminal collapse during this window. By 1549, the Saadian dynasty had effectively ended Wattasid rule in Morocco, having taken Fez the previous year — which makes coins struck in this final phase among the last gasps of a dynasty that had itself begun as regents before seizing the sultanate outright in 1472. Whether this piece was struck before or after the fall of Fez is impossible to determine from the flan alone.