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Dirham - Abu Muhammad 'Abd Allah Fes
| Issuer | Morocco |
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| Year | 1557-1574 |
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| Reference(s) | A#557 |
| Obverse description | Irregular hammered flan bearing a multi-line Arabic legend in Maghrebi script filling the entire field, reading 'La ilaha illa Allah, al-amr kulluhu lillah, Fas' (There is no god but God, all authority belongs to God, Fes). The inscription is arranged in three or four lines across the coin, with the mint name Fes appearing in the lower portion of the field. The strike is typical of Saadian hammered coinage, showing uneven flan edges and variable depth of relief. |
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| Obverse lettering | لا إله إلا الله الأمر كله لله فاس |
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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.