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Fractional Dinar - Muhammad ibn Djahwar
| Issuer | Taifa of Córdoba (Jawharids) |
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| Year | 1043-1058 |
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| Value | Fractional Dinar (1/2) |
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| Obverse description | Central field bearing multiple lines of Arabic Kufic inscription arranged horizontally within a plain inner circle. A small six-pointed star ornament appears above the central text field. The legends are boldly struck in high relief against a striated background, characteristic of Andalusian hammered gold coinage of the taifa period. The irregular flan edge is typical of hand-struck fractional dinars of this era. |
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| Mintage | ND (1043-1058) |
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The Jawharid taifa emerged from the collapse of the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba after the fitna of 1009–1031, a period of civil war that fragmented al-Andalus into dozens of petty kingdoms. Muhammad ibn Djahwar and his son governed Córdoba itself — the old caliphal capital — as a kind of oligarchic republic, unusual among the taifas for having no pretensions to royal title. That political restraint did not extend to coinage. Fractional gold dinars of this type served trans-Mediterranean trade networks at a moment when Andalusi gold was still internationally trusted currency.