1 Dirham - Al-Ma'mun

The Taifa of Valencia was a politically unstable fragment of the collapsing Caliphate of Córdoba, changing hands repeatedly in the eleventh century between Berber factions and local Arab dynasties. This dirham invokes Al-Ma'mun, the powerful ruler of Toledo who briefly controlled Valencia after 1065 — the coin's dating places it squarely within that contested annexation. Copper issues from the taifa period were emergency-grade coinage, a symptom of treasuries too depleted to sustain silver production. Vives 1105 is among the rarer classified types from this mint.