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Dirham - al-Walid
| Issuer | Morocco |
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| Year | 1630 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | Reverse field filled with several lines of Arabic script in Maghribi style, similarly arranged in horizontal registers across the flan. A partial dotted border frames the legend toward the upper and lateral margins, while the lower field shows additional Arabic text. The strike is characteristically uneven with areas of weakness at the edges, consistent with the hand-hammered technique employed at Sa'adian Moroccan mints during the reign of al-Walid. |
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Struck under the Sa'adian dynasty in a period of acute political fragmentation, Moroccan silver coinage of this era was produced at multiple competing mints as regional governors asserted varying degrees of autonomy from Marrakesh. Attribution to al-Walid — one of several Sa'adian princes who contested power through the early seventeenth century — places this piece within a series defined more by dynastic infighting than stable administration. KM#23 is among the scarcer Sa'adian types precisely because centralized minting had largely broken down by 1630.