Abu Sa'id 'Uthman II ruled the Marinid sultanate through a period of intense competition with the Nasrid kingdom of Granada and the Hafsids of Ifriqiya, with gold coinage serving as a direct instrument of diplomatic weight. Marinid dinars of this reign drew their bullion from trans-Saharan trade networks — primarily the Malian goldfields — routed through Sijilmasa, the Marinid's critical southern entrepôt.
The Marinids never controlled a mint output as regularized as their Almohad predecessors, and weights across Abu Sa'id's issues show measurable variation that reflects periodic disruptions to that supply chain.
Abu Sa'id 'Uthman II ruled the Marinid sultanate through a period of intense competition with the Nasrid kingdom of Granada and the Hafsids of Ifriqiya, with gold coinage serving as a direct instrument of diplomatic weight. Marinid dinars of this reign drew their bullion from trans-Saharan trade networks — primarily the Malian goldfields — routed through Sijilmasa, the Marinid's critical southern entrepôt.
The Marinids never controlled a mint output as regularized as their Almohad predecessors, and weights across Abu Sa'id's issues show measurable variation that reflects periodic disruptions to that supply chain.