NAZARIES OF GRANADA, Muhammad I (630-662H). Dinar. (Au. 4.59g/29mm). S/D. Gharnata / غرناطة. (Vives 2161var; Nasrí Numismatics Plate 2; Medina 239a; Jiménez 3986). Anv: لا اله الا الله (Not God but God) / محمد رسول الله (Muhammad sent from God) / المهدي امام الامة (The Mahdi Imam of the community) / غرنا طة (Gharnata). Segments: امير المسلمين (Emir of the Believers) الغالب بالله (al-Galib bi-Allah) محمد بن يوسف (Muhammad son of Yusuf) بن نصر ايده الله (son of Nars Help him God). Rev: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم (In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful) / و لاغالب الاالله (And no victor but God). Segments: والهكم (And your God is) اله واحـد (One God) لا اله ا لا هو (No God but HE) الرحمن الرحيم (The Gracious, the Merciful). Very rare copy, we have no record of any being auctioned in the last 15 years. Encapsulated by NGC as AU Details, Damaged.
This Almohad-style dinar or doubloon is considered the first gold coin to feature the famous Nasrid motto: wa-la ghaliba illa Allah, "There is no victor but God," inscribed on the third line of the IIA. It is also considered the second type of dinar in the name of the founder of the Nasrid dynasty, as the first is in the Hafsid style. The minting of these coins must have begun after the year 647 AH/1249 AD since, despite the initial political ups and downs, in which al-Aḥmar successively recognized the sovereignty of the Hafsid emir of Tunis, the 'Abbasid caliph of the East and, later, the Almohad caliph of Marrakech - before returning to recognize the former -, it was not until the death of the Tunisian emir Abu Zakariyyaʾ Yaḥya, in that same year 647 AH, when Muḥammad I began to consider himself an independent emir, legitimizing himself and thus marking the effective beginning of the Nasrid dynasty.
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