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1 Dinar - Al-Rashid b. Rafi Qabis
| Issuer | Riyahid dynasty |
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| Year | 1141 |
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| Weight | 3.82 g |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Edge | Plain. |
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The Riyahid dynasty were a branch of the Banu Riyah, a Hilalian Arab tribal confederation whose presence in Ifriqiya followed the mid-eleventh century migration that devastated settled agricultural life across much of the Maghreb. Their coinage is exceptionally rare precisely because their authority was fragmented and contested — Qabis (modern Gabès, Tunisia) was one of the few urban centers where they exercised enough stable control to strike gold. A dinar from this mint and this dynasty surviving in any condition is unusual.