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Qirat - Ahmad ibn Hud
| Issuer | Uncertain Almoravid taifa |
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| Year | 1144-1145 |
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| Weight | 1.7 g |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by multiple horizontal lines of Arabic Kufic-style inscription, arranged in four registers and reading religious and ruler titulature. The legends are bold and densely packed, consistent with Almoravid hammered coinage convention. A simple linear border encircles the inscribed field, with a beaded or dotted outer rim following the irregular flan edge. The overall composition is typical of late Almoravid fractional silver coinage attributed to the taifa period. |
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| Mintage | ND (1144-1145) |
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Ahmad ibn Hud al-Mustansir briefly controlled Murcia and surrounding territories during the chaos that followed the Almoravid collapse, positioning himself as an independent ruler before the Almohad advance rendered such ambitions moot. His coinage is genuinely difficult to attribute with confidence — the political situation in al-Andalus between 1144 and 1147 produced a cluster of short-lived taifa rulers whose mint output overlaps in style and often in epigraphy.
The "uncertain Almoravid taifa" attribution reflects an unresolved scholarly debate, not cataloger caution.