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'Abd al-Rahman V (al-Mustazhir)  414/1023-1024
The turbulent year of 414H. saw no less than three rulers take power in Cordoba. ŽAbd al-Rahman a youth of barely 23 years, with an attested talent for poetry, had the shortest permanence of the three. His reign was to last the whole of 47 days and was abruptly ended with his death at the hands of Muhammad III. 
Of ŽAbd al-Rahman V, Ibn Basam ( Al-Dahira vol.I, pg 37, Cairo 1939) would say " a Sultan so poor, that not even a single dirham came to his hand". This last phrase only emphasises the rarity of the present coin.
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Dirham Andalus 414H. 2.10gr 25mm The ŽAmir on the I.A is Abu ŽAmir ibn Shuhaid one of the known ministers of ŽAbd al-Rahman V. Numisma 186-191 (1984), pg 205-207, this coin.

 

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