1 Dirham - Saqqwut al-Barghawati

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.