263 | Taifas of the Caliphate

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TAIFAS DEL CALIPHATE, Anonymous attributed to Toledo. Dinar fraction. (El. 0.54g/11mm). S/D. (Codera and Zaidin (1897) 1047 bis; Ibrahim, Cantó (2003) Supplement to the Kingdoms of Taifas, no. 169, French no. 362). Anv: لااله الاالله / محمدرسول الله. Rev: الح و ل و القوة / الله. (For God / power and might). Very Fine-. Scarce.

Codera attributed this coin to Almería ''because it bears some resemblance to some examples of Vives No. 1047, although the hoard where those examples appeared also contained other different ones from the taifas of Toledo, Badajoz, Córdoba, Valencia, Dénia and Zaragoza. However, preceding the intuition of Dr. Albert Cantó, it would be David Francés who would give a more logical reasoning to its origin, in his book ''On legitimacy, successions and their reflection in Andalusian coinage'' page 137-139, justifying the attribution of this coin to Toledo, during the presence of 'Umar al-Mutawakkil king of Badajoz'.