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1 Dirham - Saqqwut al-Barghawati
| Issuer | Ceuta, Taifa of |
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| Year | 1074 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by multiple horizontal lines of Arabic Kufic script arranged in five registers, containing the Islamic profession of faith and the name of the issuing authority. The legend is set within a plain inner border, surrounded by a circular marginal inscription in Arabic script running along the periphery of the flan. The coin exhibits the characteristic irregular, slightly buckled flan typical of hammered billon dirhams of the Taifa period, with moderate surface oxidation consistent with the alloy composition. |
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| Edge | Plain. |
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The Barghawata were a Berber confederacy of the Atlantic coast of Morocco who maintained a syncretic pseudo-Islamic faith for nearly three centuries before being crushed by the Almoravids in the mid-eleventh century. This dirham, struck in Ceuta under the taifa system that fragmented al-Andalus after the collapse of the Umayyad caliphate, reflects the political turbulence of a period when dozens of petty rulers issued their own coinage to assert legitimacy. Billon — debased silver — was the practical currency of that instability.