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, this piece belongs to the series of anonymous pieces with a hexagram that Codera attributed to Almería "because it has some resemblance to some examples of no. 1047 of Vives, although in the hoard where those examples appeared there were also other different ones from the taifas of Toledo, Badajoz, Córdoba, Valencia, Dénia and Zaragoza."

However, preceding the intuition of Dr. Alberto Canto, it was David Francés who would provide a more logical reasoning about its origin in his book De la legitimidad, las sucesiones y su reflejo en las acuñaciones andalusíes (pp. 137-139), justifying the attribution of this piece to Toledo during the presence of ʿUmar al-Mutawakkil, king of Badajoz.
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