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| 正面文字 | Arabic |
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| 背面描述 | The reverse presents multiple concentric registers of Kufic Arabic inscription occupying the entire field, framed by a pellet border consistent with Umayyad Andalusian coinage of the Caliphal period. The central and surrounding bands carry the titles and honorifics of Caliph 'Abd al-Rahman III, identified as al-Nasir li-Din Allah and Amir al-Mu'minin, alongside the Quranic verse from Sura al-Tawba (9:33). All design elements are purely epigraphic, with no figurative motifs, in accordance with Islamic artistic conventions. The Kufic lettering is angular and formal, characteristic of the Cordoban mint's refined production standards. The irregular hammered flan is typical of quarter-dinar fractions of this period. |
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'Abd al-Rahman III declared himself Caliph in 929, a direct challenge to both the Abbasids in Baghdad and the Fatimids rising in North Africa — the coinage that followed was an assertion of independent authority as much as a financial instrument. These fractional gold pieces circulated in a Córdoba that was, by the 940s, arguably the most sophisticated city in western Europe, with a population exceeding 100,000 and a mint producing currency for an economy the Frankish north could barely comprehend.
The 12mm flan demands careful die alignment to capture the full inscription, and off-center strikes are not uncommon for the type.