1/3 Dirham - Muhammad III al-Qasri Nasir al-Din

The Wattasid sultanate was in terminal collapse during this window. Muhammad III al-Qasri held nominal authority, but the Sa'adian dynasty had already seized Marrakesh in 1525 and was systematically dismantling Wattasid control of Morocco from the south. These fractional silver pieces were struck at a moment when the dynasty's effective territory had contracted to little more than Fez and its immediate hinterlands — a shrinking monetary zone for a shrinking state. The Sa'adians would extinguish the Wattasids entirely by 1554.