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Dirham - Nasir al-dawla Mubashir Aglabid dynasty - 1076-1126
| Issuer | Taifa of Majorca (Mujahid dynasty / Murabitun period) |
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| Year | 1093-1114 |
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| Weight | 3.21 g |
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| Obverse description | Irregular hammered flan bearing multiple horizontal lines of Arabic Kufic script arranged within a beaded inner border. The inscriptions are distributed across three or four registers filling the entire field, with no figurative imagery, consistent with Islamic epigraphic coinage tradition. The legends contain religious formulae and the ruler's titles. The outer margin is defined by a beaded or dotted border following the irregular coin edge. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Taifa of Majorca occupied an unusual position among the fragmented post-Caliphate kingdoms: geographically isolated in the Balearics, it survived longer than most taifas precisely because it was too peripheral for the Almoravids to prioritize. When Almoravid authority did eventually reach the islands, local rulers navigated the transition by issuing coinage that acknowledged Almoravid suzerainty while retaining dynastic identifiers — a political balancing act legible in the coin's inscriptions without being spelled out anywhere in the written record. Nasir al-dawla Mubashir held authority during exactly this ambiguous interval, the 1090s through 1110s, when formal submission to Yusuf ibn Tashfin coexisted with stubborn local governance.