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1/8 Dinar - Abu' Abd Allah Muhammad I
| Issuer | Hafsid dynasty |
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| Year | 1249-1277 |
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| Value | 1/8 Dinar |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a rectangular cartouche-style layout containing multiple lines of Arabic inscription in Maghrebi script, framed by an ornamental border with interlacing vegetal or geometric motifs. The central field displays the ruler's name and titles arranged in stacked horizontal bands, consistent with Hafsid epigraphic coinage conventions. The peripheral legend runs along the inner margin, and the irregular hammered flan shows typical unevenness at the edges. |
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Muhammad I ibn Abi Zakariya founded the Hafsid dynasty in Ifriqiya after breaking from the Almohad Caliphate in 1229, and his coinage reflects that rupture — early Hafsid gold retained Almohad metrical and typological conventions even as the political break was complete. The fractional dinar denominations, including this eighth, served the active Mediterranean commercial networks connecting Tunis to Genoa, Pisa, and Aragon, where Hafsid gold was accepted and sometimes imitated.
Album 503A is among the scarcer Hafsid fractions in the numismatic record. Small module gold of this weight frequently avoided the melt pot only by chance.