1082 | Al Andalus coins

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Independent Emir of Córdoba, attributed to the Rebels. Felus. (Ae. 1.82g/23mm). Undated. (Miles 182f, Frochoso II-4). Religious legends divided into three lines in both areas. Citing Ibn al-Rasid in IIA. VF. Rare.
Includes a label with annotations and period drawings by the collector.

While Miles, as the initial cataloger, describes the name of this piece as "unintelligible," Frochoso identifies it with a family of rebels from the late emirate and tells us: "Regarding the Banu Rashid... we know that they lived along the Wadi Ana (Guadiana) and that in the time of Emir Abd Allah, they welcomed the rebel Ibn Qasi... We also know that in the year 303 AH, according to the Muqtabis V pp. 82-83, 'an army marched to the castle of Alanje near Mérida where the Baranis Kutama lived, who had evacuated the fortress of Saktan; they were very numerous, brave, and daring, and their leader was called Ibn Rashid...'"