1152 | Al Andalus coins

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TAIFAS OF THE CALIPHATE, TOLEDO AND VALENCIA (Banu Du-l-Nun). Yahya II al-Qadir. Dirham. (Ve. 3.66g/21mm). 469H. Madīnat Balansīya (Valencia) / مدينة بلنسية? (Vives 1122; Prieto 343f; Francés Vañó 2017 (Las acuñaciones andalusíes), pp. 128-131). Similar in the design of the central areas to Vives types 1119 and 1120, it contains neither a mint mark nor a date, repeating the "prophetic mission of Muḥammad" on the rim of both areas. VF+. Vanos. Very rare. We only have records of two other similar examples. The attribution of the date and the mint is more than argued by the researcher David Francés in his book De la legitimidad, las sucesiones y su reflejo en las acuñaciones andalusíes, pp. 128-133, where he attributes the commission of this coinage to the governor Abū Bakr Ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, under very specific circumstances, described in the chronicles of the time.