Square 1/8 Dirham

The Almohad square dirham series — struck across mints from Seville to Marrakesh to Sijilmasa — was one of the most geometrically distinctive coinages in Islamic history, and the fractional pieces carried that same format down to this near-negligible weight. At 0.13 g, this eighth-dirham would have been among the smallest silver coins in everyday Andalusian and Maghrebi commerce, filling a genuine transactional gap in a monetized economy that ran on fractions.

The Almohad rejection of figural imagery was doctrinal, rooted in Ibn Tumart's strict Berber reformism — the square flan itself may have served as a deliberate visual break from Almoravid round coinage.