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Benduqi - Moulay Sulayman Fes Hazrat
| Issuer | Sultanate of Morocco (Alaouite Dynasty) |
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| Year | 1795-1823 |
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| Weight | 3.52 g |
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| Obverse description | Circular hammered gold flan with irregular flan edges characteristic of Moroccan Alaouite coinage. The central field features a small circular medallion enclosing a six-pointed star (Seal of Solomon) with a central pellet, surrounded by a raised ring border. Radiating from this central medallion, the Arabic Shahada legend is disposed in four quadrants across the field in flowing Maghribi script. An outer marginal legend encircles the design, all inscriptions rendered in relief against a flat field. The overall style reflects the traditional Islamic aniconic hammered coinage of the Fes mint. |
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| Edge | Plain, irregular |
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Moulay Sulayman's reign was defined less by military ambition than by a determined effort to suppress the Sufi brotherhoods he considered doctrinally dangerous — an unusual preoccupation for a ruler also managing the disruptions of the Napoleonic wars on Atlantic trade. The Fez mint operated intermittently under his watch, and gold output was irregular enough that surviving benduqis from this reign cluster unevenly across the nearly three-decade span.
KM#115 specimens struck at Fez tend to show softer definition than those from Marrakech, a known characteristic of the Fes Hazrat workshop during this period.