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Dirham - Ahmad Abu al-Abbas al-Mansur

Uitgever Saadian Dynasty
Jaar 1578-1603
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Gewicht 1.17 g
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Schrift voorzijde Arabic
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Beschrijving keerzijde The reverse presents an additional Arabic religious or dynastic legend in Maghrebi script, heavily worn and partially legible due to the struck flan's uneven surface. The inscription occupies the central field without a formal border, consistent with the minimalist aesthetic of Saadian dirhams of this period. The strike is off-center in places, a common characteristic of hammered coinage produced at Moroccan mints. No mint name or date is visible, as was typical for undated issues of Ahmad al-Mansur. The flan displays natural cracks and flow lines inherent to the hand-hammered technique.
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Ahmad al-Mansur came to power immediately after the Battle of the Three Kings in 1578 — a catastrophic Portuguese-led invasion that killed three monarchs in a single afternoon, including his predecessor Abd al-Malik. The windfall of Portuguese ransoms and captured equipment funded what became one of the most solvent courts in the Islamic world, and his subsequent 1591 conquest of the Songhay Empire via a 4,000-man army crossing the Sahara flooded Morocco with Saharan gold.

The silver dirham persisted largely as a local transaction coin while gold dominated al-Mansur's imperial ambitions. His epithet — "the Golden" — was earned, not ceremonial.

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