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1 Dinar - Abul Ula Idris I
| Issuer | Almohad Caliphate |
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| Year | 1229-1232 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse lettering | لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله |
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| Edge | Plain. |
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The Almohad Caliphate's square-within-circle gold coinage was among the most influential monetary designs in medieval Mediterranean commerce, circulating as far as sub-Saharan trade routes and deeply enough into Christian Iberia that Castilian and Portuguese mints eventually copied its format directly — the morabetino and maravedi both descend from this tradition. Abul Ula Idris I ruled during a period of accelerating Almohad fragmentation, his reign contested almost from the start by Hafsid governors in Ifriqiya asserting increasing autonomy.
His issues are among the scarcer late Almohad dinars, the caliphate's western territories shrinking under Reconquista pressure throughout his short reign.