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1 Dinar - Yusuf II
| Issuer | Emirate of Granada |
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| Year | 1391-1392 |
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| Value | 1 Dinar |
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| Obverse description | The obverse presents a densely inscribed central square field containing multiple lines of Arabic calligraphic legend in Maghribi Naskh script, arranged in horizontal registers. The square field is framed by a double linear border, with additional marginal Arabic inscriptions occupying the annular space between the square and the outer beaded border that encircles the entire design. A short inscription appears above the square at the top margin and another at the bottom margin, both within their own cartouche-like panels. The overall design follows the characteristic Nasrid hammered gold dinar tradition, with no figural imagery, the entire surface devoted to religious and dynastic epigraphic ornament. |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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Yusuf II's reign lasted less than two years — he died in October 1392, likely of plague, after ascending the Nasrid throne in 1391. That brevity, combined with Granada's already-constrained minting output in the late fourteenth century, makes this dinar genuinely scarce by any measure of Nasrid numismatics. The emirate was by then a contracted tributary state, its gold supply dependent on trans-Saharan trade routes increasingly disrupted by Marinid political collapse in Morocco.