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Square 1/2 Dirham - Abu Ya'qub Yusuf ibn Ya'qub
| Issuer | Almohad Caliphate |
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| Year | 1163-1184 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse lettering | الامر كله لله وحده سبتة (Translation: The command is all God's, Ceuta) |
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The square half-dirham is the denomination that most sharply distinguishes Almohad coinage from everything that preceded it in the Islamic West. The square flan was a deliberate ideological break — the Almohad movement under Ibn Tumart had rejected the Almoravid regime as theologically corrupt, and the new coin format made that rupture visible in daily commerce across Morocco and al-Andalus.
Abu Ya'qub Yusuf I inherited both the caliphate and its ongoing Iberian campaigns, dying at the siege of Santarém in 1184.