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Dinar - Abu Tashufin 'Abd al-Rahman I
| Issuer | Zayyanid dynasty |
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| Year | 1318-1337 |
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| Currency | Dinar (1236-1555) |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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| Mintage | ND (1318-1337) |
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Abu Tashufin I ruled Tlemcen at a moment of sustained Marinid aggression from Morocco — the Zayyanids spent much of the early fourteenth century in a stranglehold, with Marinid forces besieging Tlemcen for years at a stretch. The longest of those sieges, lasting from 1299 to 1307, had already bankrupted the dynasty once before Abu Tashufin's reign began. That he was minting gold at all signals a recovery, however partial.
His reign ended in 1337 when the Marinids finally took the city. Abu Tashufin died in the fall of Tlemcen itself.