Fractional Dinar - Muhammad ibn Djahwar

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.