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Dirham - al-Walid
| Issuer | Morocco |
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| Year | 1630 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#23 |
| Obverse description | Hammered silver flan bearing multiple lines of Arabic script in Maghribi calligraphic style occupying the central field, with a dotted inner border partially visible along the rim. The legends are arranged in stacked horizontal registers and record the Shahadah or ruler's titulature in deeply struck, granular relief characteristic of Sa'adian coinage. The irregular flan and bold, somewhat crude strike are typical of hand-hammered Moroccan dirhams of the early seventeenth century. |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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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.