Dirham - Abu Muhammad 'Abd Allah Fes

Abd Allah al-Ghalib, the Saadian sultan who ruled from 1557 to 1574, consolidated power after eliminating his brothers and maintained an unusually stable reign by the standards of the dynasty. His administration negotiated carefully with both Ottoman pressure from the east and Portuguese encroachment on the Atlantic coast, and the mint at Fes operated continuously through his reign — a regularity not guaranteed in this period.

The A#557 reference places this among the thinner, smaller-diameter Saadian dirhams that circulated alongside Spanish reales flowing in from trans-Saharan trade networks.