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Dirham - 'Abd Allah I
| Issuer | Aghlabid Emirate of Ifriqiya |
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| Year | 812-817 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Mintage | ND (812-817) - 195-201 AH |
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'Abd Allah I ruled the Aghlabid emirate for just five years before his death in 817, a reign short enough that his silver dirhams were never struck in quantity approaching those of his longer-lived successors. The Aghlabids operated as nominally Abbasid vassals, and their coinage maintained the Abbasid epigraphic formula as a deliberate signal of religious legitimacy — even as the dynasty exercised near-total political autonomy from Baghdad.