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Robai / Tari - Al-Mustansir Billah Stellate
| Issuer | Emirate of Sicily (Fatimid Caliphate) |
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| Year | 1036-1094 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic (Kufic) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Al-Mustansir's reign as Fatimid Caliph was the longest in Islamic history — over sixty years — yet Sicily by this period was slipping from Fatimid practical control toward the Norman encroachment that would conclude with Roger I's capture of Palermo in 1072. The debasement visible in this gold fraction reflects not central Cairene policy but the fiscal strain of a Sicily increasingly isolated from its nominal overlords.
The stellate format is specific to Sicilian Fatimid fractional gold and has no parallel in Egyptian mint output from the same reign.