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1 Dinar - Abu'l 'Abbas Ahmad II
| Issuer | Hafsid dynasty |
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| Year | 1379-1394 |
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| Value | Dinar (1) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Mint | Tunis |
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Ahmad II ruled the Hafsid sultanate of Ifriqiya during a period of acute dynastic instability — his reign coincided with repeated Aragonese pressure on Tunisian coastal cities and internal fragmentation that had, by the late fourteenth century, split the Hafsid realm between competing claimants in Tunis, Béjaïa, and Constantine. Gold dinars of this period were critical instruments of legitimacy; Hafsid rulers derived considerable prestige from their control of trans-Saharan gold routes terminating at Tunis, and the continued ability to strike full-weight gold coinage was itself a political statement during contested successions.
KM# 107 is among the less frequently encountered Hafsid gold types in the western market.