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Dinar - Al-Mustansir Billah
| Issuer | Fatimid Caliphate |
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| Year | 1036-1094 |
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| Value | 1 Dinar |
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| Obverse lettering | la ilah illa allah muhammad rasul allah wa ‘ali afdal al-wasiyyin wa wazir khayr al-mursilin muhammad rasul allah arsalahu bi’l-huda wa din al-haqq li-yuzhirahu ‘ala al-din kullihi wa law kariha al-mushrikun (Translation: Inner circle: “no god but God, Muhammad is the messenger of God” Middle circle: “and ‘Ali is the most excellent of the caretakers and the vizier of the best of the messengers” Outer circle: “Muhammad is the messenger of God who sent him with guidance and the religion of truth that he might make it supreme over all other religions, even though the polytheists detest it” Sura 9 (al-Tawba) verse 33) |
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| Reverse lettering | al-mustansir billah amir al-mu’minin da’a al-imam ma’add li-tawhid illa lahu al-samad bism allah duriba hadha’l-dinar bi-misr sana sab‘ wa sittin wa arba‘mi’a (Translation: Inner circle: “al-Mustansir billah, Commander of the Faithful” Middle circle: “the Imam Ma‘add summons all to confess the unity of God the eternal”. Outer circle: “in the name of God, this dinar was struck in Misr the year seven and sixty and four hundred”) |
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Al-Mustansir's reign of 60 years is the longest of any caliph in Islamic history, but the first half was defined by a catastrophic famine that struck Egypt between 1065 and 1072 — seven years of Nile flood failure that reduced Cairo to cannibalism and drove the caliph's own treasury to near collapse. Gold coinage from the early reign reflects a functioning Fatimid monetary system; issues struck during or just after the famine years show subtle but documented weight inconsistencies as the state scrambled to maintain specie output.
The Fatimid mint at al-Mahrusa (Cairo) was the primary source, though provincial dies from Alexandria and occasionally Upper Egyptian mints complicate attribution within the long series.