Muhammad al-Mutawakkil – 625-635 / 1228-1238 – محمّد بن يوسف بن هود المتوكل
Dirham
Qurtuba (Cordoba)
1.54gr 17mm
Vives 2134
1/2 Dirham
no mint
0.55gr 13mm
0.47gr 13mm
Vives 2135
1/2 Dirham
Ishbiliya ( Sevilla)
0.54gr 13mm
Vives 2137
1/4 Dirham
no mint
0.32gr 10mm
Ibrahim ( 1996) nº27
Dirham
no mint
1.52gr 17mm
Vives 2140
Dirham
Ishbiliya (Sevilla)
1.42gr 17mm
Vives 2141
Dirham
Ishbiliya (Sevilla)
gr 17mm
Vives 2141
Dirham
Qurtuba (Cordoba)
1.54gr 17mm
Vives 2143
Dirham
Malqa (Malaga)
1.22gr 15mm
Vives 2144
Dirham
Mursiya (Murcia)
1.22gr 17mm
Vives 2145
Dirham
False of this ruler.
Copper silver plated
1.46gr 17mm
as Vives 2140
1/2 Dirham
Copper with traces of silver
0.56gr 14mm
as Vives 2135
Muhammad al-Wathiq – 635-636 (seven months) / 1238 – 661-664 / 1263- 1266 – أبو بكر محمّد بن محمّد بن يوسف الواثق
1/2 Dirham
Shatiba (Jativa)
0.56gr 12mm
R.Lorente (1984) 133
Dirham
Mursiya (Murcia)
1.52gr 18mm
Vives 2152 R.Lorente 129
Dirham
Shatiba (Jativa)
1.50gr 18mm
Vives 2153
Dirham
no mint
1.46gr 17mm
as Vives 2153
but no mint name.
Dirham
no mint
1.56gr 17mm
Vives 2154
R.Lorente 131
Muhammad Baha’ al-Dawla – 639-659 / 1241- 1260 – محمّد بن محمّد بن هود بهاء الدولة
Dinar
644 – Mursiya (Murcia)
2.25gr 22mm
R. Lorente, 104
Dinar
648 – Mursiya (Murcia)
2.22gr 22mm
1/2 Dinar
649 – Mursiya (Murcia)
1.18gr 15mm
Dinar
651 – Mursiya (Murcia)
2.32gr 22mm
Anonymous coins attributable to the Banu Hud
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 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.
Dirham
no mint
1.54gr 14x14mm
Hazard 1118
R.Lorente 138
This coin.
Dirham
Sabta (Ceuta)
1.52gr 14x14mm
Hazard 1117
R.Lorente 137
Dirham
mint seems to be an abbreviation of Mursiya (Murcia)
1.48gr 15x15mm
Dirham
Mursiya (Murcia)
1.01gr 12X12mm
Abu al-‘Abbas Ahmad al Yanashti – 630-635 / 1232-1237 – أبو العباس أحمد اليانشتي
Dinar
Thaghr Sabta
(Frountier of Ceuta)
631H
4.52gr 29mm
No coins in the name of this ruler had been previously registered.
After the rebellion of Ceuta against Ibn Hud of Murcia, one of its notables, Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Yanashti, is proclaimed as ruler. On this coin we read that he takes the title of al-Muwafaq and recognizes the nominal suzerainty of the ’Abbasid Al-Mustansir. This recognition of the Abbasids would signal in the politics of the time an anti-Almohad orientation. The use of the word thaghr/frontier before the mint name seems to be related to the insecurity that must have been felt in the face of the growing naval power of the Christian states. Actually Ceuta did suffer a stiff siege in 633/1235 by the Genovese fleet in retaliation for mistreatment of some of its merchants established in it. The siege would only be lifted after a hefty payment.
In 635/1237 there is another tumultuous political change and Yanashti looses power and is imprisoned. Ceuta then reverts, temporarily, to Almohade allegiance.
Dirham
Sabta al-Mahrusa
(Ceuta the protected)
635H
1.60gr 16mm
Bréthes 27
Hazard 1121
Even though this coin 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 635-647 / 1237-1249 أبو علي إبن خلاص
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 640 and proclaims Hafsid suzerainty recognising Abu Zakariya Yahya as is attested by this coin.
Anonymous coins of Sabta, probably of this period.
1/16 Dinar
Sabta (Ceuta)
0.23gr 9mm
Ibrahim (1966) 29
1/2 Dirham
Sabta (Ceuta)
0.53gr 12x12mm
Ibrahim (1966) 30
1/4 dirham
Sabta (Ceuta)
0.42gr 9x9mm
Ahmmad ibn Muhammad al-Badji – 629-631 / 1231-1233 – أحمد بن محمد الباجي
Dirham
Ishbiliya (Sevilla) 1.40gr 15x 15mm
Dirham
Ishbiliya (Sevilla) 1.51gr 15x 15mm
Musa ibn Mahfuz – Amir al-Gharb 631-660/1234-1262 – موسى بن محمد بن نصير بن محفوط المستعين
Dirham
no mint
1.50gr 15x15mm
1.48gr 15x15mm
Vives 2123
(three die variants)
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).
Dirham
no mint
1.64gr 14x14mm
1.58gr 14x14mm
as Vives 2123 but
with the beginning
alif top of
al-’Abbasi
(two die variants)
Dirham
no mint
1.58gr 14×14 mm
as Vives 2123 but
alif top of sin of
al-’Abbasi and djal
top of the word
al-Mustansir.
Dirham
no mint
1.58gr 14x15mm
Vives 2123 variant
with three lines in
the IA.
Ibrahim (1996) 28