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1 Dirham - Muhammad II Pakh al-Yun
| Issuer | Emirate of Yun |
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| Year | 1032-1040 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Central field bearing a multi-line Arabic Kufic legend arranged in four horizontal registers within a plain linear border. The inscription, typical of Islamic coinage of the period, contains the declaration of faith and the ruler's name and titles. The peripheral margin carries an additional marginal legend encircling the central text. The flan is irregular, characteristic of hand-struck hammered silver coinage of the medieval Islamic world. |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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The Emirate of Yun was one of the small Taifa kingdoms that emerged from the collapse of the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba after 1031, when the last caliph Hisham III was deposed and the caliphate formally dissolved. These fractured successor states — dozens of them across al-Andalus — each began striking their own coinage almost immediately, as much to assert political legitimacy as for practical monetary use. Identifying the precise ruling lineage and geographic seat of individual minor Taifas remains an active area of scholarship.