1/2 Dirham - Nasir al-Din Muhammad

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.