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1/3 Square Dirham - Muhammad al-Shaykh
| Issuer | Wattasid dynasty |
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| Year | 1472-1504 |
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| Reference(s) | Hohertz#887, A#548 |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Mintage | ND (1472-1504) |
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The Wattasid emirate emerged from the collapse of Marinid authority in Morocco, with Muhammad al-Shaykh ruling as the first truly independent Wattasid sultan after decades of his dynasty serving as regents. This fractional dirham belongs to a monetary system under serious strain — Portuguese encroachment along the Atlantic coast had severed key trans-Saharan trade arteries, contracting silver flows into the Maghreb and forcing the mint to produce increasingly small fractional denominations to meet demand for everyday exchange.
The Hohertz 887 classification places this among the scarcer fractional types of the series.