Coins of al-Andalus Tonegawa collection
Almohads Taifas

Banu Hud
Sabta (Ceuta)
Ishbiliyya (Sevilla)
Labla (Niebla)

 


Banu Hud

Muhammad al-Mutawakkil 625-635 / 1228-1238
TAM1.jpg (26697 bytes)
Dirham
Qurtuba (Cordoba)
1.44gr 16mm
Vives 2134
TAM2.jpg (41339 bytes)
1/2 Dirham no mint
0.55gr 13mm
0.47gr 13mm
Vives 2135
TAM3.jpg (19570 bytes)
1/2 Dirham
Ishbiliya ( Sevilla)
0.54gr 13mm
Vives 2137
TAM6a.jpg (15077 bytes)
1/4 Dirham Ishbiliya ( Sevilla )
0.28gr 11mm,  
IV Jarique, 
pg. 228, nº2, 
this coin
TAM4.jpg (10064 bytes)
1/4 Dirham no mint
0.32gr 10mm
Numisma 237, 
pg.  301, nº 27, 
this coin
TAM5.jpg (36530 bytes)
Dirham no mint
1.52gr 17mm
Vives 2140
TAM6.jpg (65314 bytes)
Dirham
Ishbiliya (Sevilla)
1.42gr 17mm
1.54gr 19mm

Vives 2141
TAM7.jpg (35456 bytes)
Dirham
Qurtuba (Cordoba)
1.54gr 17mm
Vives 2143
TAM8.jpg (25589 bytes)
Dirham
Malqa (Malaga)
1.22gr 15mm
Vives 2144
TAM9.jpg (39628 bytes)
Dirham
Mursiya (Murcia)
1.22gr 17mm
Vives 2145
TAM6b.jpg (59594 bytes)
Period false of Mutawakil. Silver plated coins. Types Vives 2140, 1.48gr 17mm  
& Vives 2135, 0.56gr 15mm.

Muhammad al-Wathiq

635-636
(seven months) / 1238
661-664 / 1263- 1266
TAM10.jpg (22628 bytes)
1/2 dirham
Shatiba (Jativa)
0.56gr 12mm
R.Lorente (1984) 133
TAM11.jpg (36076 bytes)
Dirham
Mursiya (Murcia)
1.52gr 18mm
Vives 2152 R.Lorente 129
TAM12.jpg (37862 bytes)
Dirham
Shatiba (Jativa)
1.50gr 18mm
Vives 2153
TAM13.jpg (38711 bytes)
Dirham no mint
1.46gr 17mm
as Vives 2153
but no mint name.
TAM14.jpg (35995 bytes)
Dirham no mint
1.56gr 17mm
Vives 2154
R.Lorente 131

Anonymous coins attributable to the Banu Hud
TAM15.jpg (17872 bytes)
1/8 Dinar no mint
0.53gr. 13 mm
found with silver
coins of the Banu
Hud & is
stylistically very
similar to the
scarce gold of this
dynasty.
The following first two coins have been attributed to al-Mutawakkil´s brief, three month, occupation of Sabta in 630 (see Hazard, pg. 272). It is nevertheless just as possible that they could have been struck by a-Yanashti, the independent ruler of Sabta from 630 till 635. Note that the following four coins all recognise the ´Abbasid khalif which is emblematic in this period as being anti Almohade. The last two with the mint of Mursiya are different from the first two in the third line of the IA, this may be indicative that they were not struck by the same authority.
TAM16.jpg (30936 bytes)
Dirham no mint
1.54gr 14x14mm
Hazard 1118
R.Lorente 138
this coin.
TAM17.jpg (26155 bytes)
Dirham
Sabta (Ceuta)
1.52gr 14x14mm
Hazard 1117
R.Lorente 137
TAM18.jpg (30889 bytes)
Dirham
mint seems to be
an abbreviation of
Mursiya (Murcia)
1.48gr 15x15mm
TAM19.jpg (17158 bytes)
Dirham
Mursiya (Murcia)
1.01gr 12X12mm

Sabta (Ceuta)

Abu al.´Abbas Ahmad al Yanashti  630-635 / 1232-1237
TAM20.jpg (31327 bytes)
Dirham
Sabta al-Mahrusa
(Ceuta the protected)
1.60gr 16mm  
Bréthes 27
Hazard 1121
Even though this coin is politically neutral, it names only the ´Abbasid al-Mustansir, there can be no doubt that it was struck by Yanashti in his last year in power. The reason being  that his fall from power was due to a pro Almohad rebellion at the end of the said year. Just after that Sabta would start to strike coins in the name of Almohad ´Abd  al-Wahid II .

Ibn khalas
 640-647 / 1242-1249
TAM21.jpg (80801 bytes)
Dinar

Sabta (Ceuta)  
4.68gr  27mm 
Brèthes 1234 
Hazard 553
R.Lorente/Ibrahim
(1987) 179 this coin
Ibn Khalas, the Almohade appointed governor of Sabta, rebels in 364 and proclaims Hafsid suzerainty recognising Abu Zakariya as is attested by this coin.

Anonymous coins of Sabta, probably of this period.
TAM22.jpg (9806 bytes)
1/16 of a dinar
Sabta (Ceuta)
0,23gr 9mm
Numisma 237, 
pg. 301, nº 29, 
this coin
TAM23.jpg (19489 bytes)
1/4 Dirham
Sabta (Ceuta)
53 12x12mm
Numisma 237, 
pg 302, nº 30, 
this coin

Ishbiliyya (Sevilla)

Ahmmad ibn Muhammad al-Badji   629 - 631 / 1231- 1233
TAM24.jpg (41062 bytes)
Dirham 
Ishbiliya (Sevilla)    1.40gr  15x 15
Vives 2119

Labla (Niebla)

Musa ibn Mahfuz, Amir al-Gharb     631-660/1234-1262
TAM25.jpg (98956 bytes)
Dirham no mint
1.50gr 15x15mm 1.48gr 15x15mm
Vives 2123
(three die variants)
TAM26.jpg (57771 bytes)
Dirham no mint
1.56gr 14x14mm
1.56gr 14x14mm
as Vives 2123 but
with word djal on
top of the word
al-Musta´in
(two die variants).
TAM27.jpg (62461 bytes)
Dirham no mint
1.64gr 14x14mm
1.58gr 14x14mm
as Vives 2123 but
with the beginning
alif top of
al-´Abbasi
(two die variants)
TAM28.jpg (30618 bytes)
Dirham no mint
1.58gr 14x14 mm
as Vives 2123 but
alif top of sin of
al-Abbas and djal
top of the word
al-Mustansir.
TAM29.jpg (32803 bytes)
Dirham no mint
1.58gr 14x15mm
Vives 2123 variant
with three lines in
the IA.
Ibrahim (1996) 28

 

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