Tarí - William I

Descrizione del dritto	Central field features a small globule within a linear inner circle, surrounded by a Kufic legend reading 'Al-Malik Ghiliyalm al-mu'tazz bi-amr Allah' ('King William who, by the command of God, guides the right path'). The design reflects the multicultural artistic tradition of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily, blending Islamic calligraphic convention with Norman royal iconography. The script is rendered in a flowing cursive Kufic style distributed evenly around the central device.
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Bordo	Plain
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Informazioni aggiuntive	William I inherited a Sicilian monetary system built by his father Roger II, who had deliberately fused Norman, Byzantine, and Fatimid coinage traditions into something that answered to no single European convention. The tarì itself derived from the Arab tharī, and Palermo's mint had been striking them in near-continuous production since the emirate period — William's issues simply continued a pipeline that predated Norman rule by over a century. William's reign earned him the epithet "the Bad" from chroniclers hostile to his reliance on Arab administrators, the same officials who likely oversaw mint operations throughout this series.