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Dinar - Abu Ishaq Ibrahim II
| Issuer | Hafsid dynasty |
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| Year | 1350-1369 |
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| Composition | Gold |
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| Reverse description | Central square frame enclosing multiple lines of Maghribi Arabic script arranged in the Almohad epigraphic style, bearing Quranic verses and the name and titles of the reigning Hafsid ruler Abu Ishaq Ibrahim II. The marginal legend in cursive Arabic script surrounds the central square on all four sides within a dotted border, following the standard reverse layout of Hafsid gold coinage. The calligraphy is executed in a bold, angular style characteristic of North African Islamic monetary art of the mid-fourteenth century. The flan shows the characteristic irregular outline of a hand-struck hammered gold coin, with slight variations in strike depth across the surface. |
| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Abu Ishaq Ibrahim II ruled the Hafsid sultanate through one of its most turbulent stretches — the Black Death reached Ifriqiya with devastating force in 1348-1349, just before his reign, collapsing trade networks that had made Tunis one of the Mediterranean's wealthier entrepôts. Hafsid gold dinars of this period maintained the weight standard closely enough to remain acceptable in Italian mercantile transactions, and Genoese and Pisan merchants continued accepting them as near-equivalents to the Florentine florin in North African port settlements.
Ibrahim II was eventually deposed in 1369 by his own son, ending a reign marked by persistent dynastic infighting that characterized the Hafsids through much of the fourteenth century.