1387 | Al Andalus coins

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TAIFAS DEL CALIPHATE, Anonymous attributed to Toledo. Copper Fraction. (Ae. 0.99g/13mm). S/D. (Agüera 2017 var; Manquso nº8, pp. 43-60). Anv: وحده / لا اله الا الله . Rev: و القوة / الحول / لله (for God power and might). Very Fine-. Very rare specimen. We have no evidence of any other copy with this variant legend on the back. As a variant of Ibrahim, Cantó (2003), Supplement to the Taifa Kingdoms, no. 169, states that this piece belongs to the series of anonymous hexagram coins that Codera attributed to Almería "because they bear some resemblance to some examples of Vives' no. 1047, although the hoard where those examples appeared also contained others from the Taifa kingdoms of Toledo, Badajoz, Córdoba, Valencia, Dénia, and Zaragoza." However, preceding Dr. Albert Cantó's intuition, it was David Francés who provided a more logical explanation of its origin in his book On Legitimacy, Successions, and Their Reflection in Andalusian Coinage (pp. 137-139), justifying the attribution of this piece to Toledo during the reign of ʿUmar al-Mutawakkil, king of Badajoz. https://wearenumismatics.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Manquso08.pdf