Square 1/4 Dirham - Granada

The Nasrid emirate of Granada was the last Muslim polity on the Iberian Peninsula, surviving for over two and a half centuries after the fall of Córdoba and Seville partly through careful diplomacy with Castile — including, at times, paying tribute to the very kingdom that would eventually extinguish it. These fractional silver pieces circulated in a court economy that produced the Alhambra. The square flan is a deliberate formal choice rooted in North African Almohad minting conventions, carried forward as a marker of Andalusian Muslim identity under increasing political pressure.