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Dinar - Abu'l-'Abbas Ahmad II Sijilmasah
| Issuer | Morocco |
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| Year | 1596 |
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| Value | Dinar (1) |
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| Mint | Sijilmasah |
| Mintage | 1004 (1596) |
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Ahmad II — better known as Ahmad al-Mansur, the Saadian sultan who crushed the Songhai Empire at Tondibi in 1591 — controlled Sijilmasa as the northern terminus of trans-Saharan gold routes that his own military campaigns had violently extended southward. The mint there was not incidental; it was a direct instrument of that wealth, striking dinars from gold flowing north out of the Sudan.
Al-Mansur died in 1603 amid a plague that also killed three of his sons, triggering a succession war that fragmented Saadian power within a generation. A 1596 Sijilmasa dinar falls near the absolute peak of his treasury's capacity.