After the Saqlabis Khairan and Zuhair the rule of Almeria passes in 429H to ‘Abd al-‘Aziz of Valencia, but soon the defacto ruler becomes his designed governor Ibn Sumadih. The last strikes some fractional coinage in the name of his overlord ( see coins of Valencia) but very soon after, in 433H, as a sign of independece, starts striking anonymous coins without any mention of any overlord.
Ma’an ibn Sumadih – 433-443 / 1041-1052 – معن بن صمادح
Dirham
Andalus
433H?
2.28gr 22mm
Type Vives 1041 but with date
Dirham
Andalus
no date
4.50gr 25mm
With two marginal ledgends.
Prieto supplement n136
Dirham
Andalus
no date
4.22gr 23mm
Vives 1041,
Prieto 354
Dirham
al-Mariya (Almeria)
(4?)6H
1.68gr 20mm
As Vives 1039 but first digit seems to be 6.
(Prieto 140 tentatively attributes this coin, without there being any obvious reason, to “‘Zuhair?”. If he were correct then the date would have to read 426H).
Dirham
al-Mariya (Almeria)
(43)5H
3.74gr 21mm
Prieto 354a
Al-Mu`tasim bi-Allah – 443-484 / 1052-1091 المعتصم أبو يحيى محمد بن معن
Dirham
al-Mariya (Almeria)
no date
4.24gr 22mm
Vives 1046,
Prieto 359
Dirham
al-Mariya (Almeria)
no date
4.18gr 22mm
Vives 1046,
Prieto 359
Dirham
al-Mariya (Almeria)
(4?4)H
3.90gr 22mm
As Vives 1046,
Prieto 359 but with first digit
Dirham
al-Mariya (Almeria)
no date
4.70gr 20mm
Vives 1048,
Prieto 361
Ahmad / Yumn al-Dawla – يمن الدولة محمد بن عبد ألله
Prieto attributes these coins, based on the title Yum al Dawla on IIA, to Muhammad ibn ‘Abd Allah who reigned from 421-434/1030-1042. If right, then the Ahmad on IA is his son who only got to govern for a few months in 434/1042. Almoravids take Alpuente in 500/1011.
Dirham
Fractional dirham
mint off coin, but presumed al-Bunt (Alpuente)
no date
0.75gr 9mm
Prieto 349
Saqqwut al-Barghawati – 453-470 / 1061-1077 – سقوت البرغواطي
Dirham
Madina Sabta (Ceuta)
464H
4.18gr 22mm
Vives 877,
Prieto 126a
Dirham
Madina Sabta (Ceuta)
464H
3.68gr 21mm
Vives 877,
Prieto 126a
Dirham
Madina Sabta (Ceuta)
466H
2.66gr 22mm
Vives 879,
Prieto 126c
Dirham
Madina Sabta (Ceuta)
466H
3.14gr 22mm
Vives 879,
Prieto 126c
Dirham
Madina Sabta (Ceuta)
467H
2.76gr 23mm
Vives 880,
Prieto 126d.
Dirham
Madina Sabta (Ceuta)
467H
3.32gr 23mm
Vives 880,
Prieto 126d.
Dirham
Madina Sabta (Ceuta)
467H
2.70gr 23mm
Vives 880,
Prieto 126d.
Dirham
Madina Sabta (Ceuta)
468H
3.40gr 22mm
Vives -,
Prieto –
Al-‘Izz ibn Saqqut – 470-471 / 1077-1078 – العز بن سقوت
Almoravid occupation of Ceuta in 471/1078
Dirham
Madina Sabta (Ceuta)
no date
2.68gr 24mm
The margins run along the outer edge of the eight point star, the mint on IA.
Vives 881,
Prieto 127
Muhammad ibn Djahwar, al-Rashid – 435-450 / 1043-1058 – أبو الوليد محمد بن جهور
Dinar
Fractional dinar
Qurtuba (Cordoba)
440H
1.22gr 12mm
1.18gr 12mm
Vives 1390,
Prieto 351b
Badis Ibn Habbus al-Muzaffar – 429-465 / 1038-1073 – المظفر باديس بن حبوس
Dinar
Fractional
Madina Garnata (Granada)
(45)7H
1.30gr 11mm
Prieto supplement n65, this coin
Dihams with mint name Granada and Andalus attributed to this ruler – nominally recognizing Hamudid Idriss II
Dirham
Madina Garnata (Granada)
no date
3.26gr 23mm
Vives 852,
Prieto 111f
Dirham
Madina Garnata (Granada)
no date
4.50gr 30 mm
Vives 852,
Prieto 111f
Dirham
Madina Garnata (Granada)
no date
3.40gr 23mm
Vives 852,
Prieto 111f
Dirham
Madina Garnata (Granada)
no date
3.04gr 20mm
Vives 852,
Prieto 111f
Dirham
Madina Garnata (Granada)
no date
3.70gr 21 mm
Vives 852,
Prieto 111f
Dirham
Madina Garnata (Granada)
no date
5.70gr 23mm
Vives 852,
Prieto 111f
Dirham
Madina Garnata (Granada)
no date
2.72gr 21mm
Vives 852,
Prieto 111f
Dirham
Madina Garnata (Granada)
no date
6.25gr 22mm
Vives 852,
Prieto 111f
Dirham
Madina Garnata (Granada)
no date
5.85gr 24mm
Vives 852,
Prieto 111f
Dirham
Madina Garnata (Granada)
no date
5.60gr 23mm
Vives 852,
Prieto 111f
Dirham
Madina Garnata (Granada)
no date
2.64gr 24mm
Vives 852,
Prieto 111f
Dirham
Andalus
443H?
3.46gr 22mm
Vives 848,
Prieto 111a
Tamim ibn Buluggin al-Mustansir independent in Malaga from 465-483 / 1073-1090 Almoravid occupation of Malaga 483 / 1093 – تميم بن بلكين بن حبوس
Dinar
Madina Malaqa (Malaga)
474H
4.90gr 25mm
Prieto supplement n67, this coin
This dinar of Tamīm from the mint of Malaga which aside from al-Mu’izz li-Dīn Allah has also the titles al-Mu’ad and al-Mustanṣir which are the same as those of the Fāṭimid al-Mustanṣir 427H-487 (1036-1094 AD). Does this imply a possible nominal recognition by the last Zīrīd ruler of Malaga of the reigning Fāṭimid as his overlord? This is not registered in any of the chronicles of the period.
Dinar
Fraccional
no mint/date
1.20gr 12mm
Prieto supplement n70
Quirate
no mint/date
0.8gr 12mm
Prieto Supplement n71, this coin
Mudjahid II Siradj al-Dawla. – 468-469 / 1075-1076
According to various chronicles ( Ibn Khaldun & Ibn al-Abbar) Siradj al-Dawla was one of the sons of Iqbal al-Dawla who, after the occupation of Denia by al-Muqtadir of Zaragoza in 468H, made himself independent in Segura. His reign would be short lived as he was poisoned at the instigation of al-Muqtadir in 469H.
The importance of this coin is that it ties the laqab Siradj al-Dawla with the ism Mudjahid something which is not established in the Arabic chronicles. On the other hand a Christian document of the period relating to an arrangement between the bishop of Barcelona and the kingdom of Denia cites as signer, in representation of Iqbal al-Dawla, his son by the name Mudjahid (see Maria Jesus Ribiira Mata, La Taifa de Denis, Alicante, 1985, pgs 103-104). This coin establishes the signer of the document of Barcelona as the same person as the brief ruler of Segura.
On the coin only the first three letters of the mint appear and there second seems to be a “k” instead of the more usual “q”.
Dirham
Shakura ( Segura)
3.30gr 23mm
Prieto supplement n91
Dinar
Fractional
no mint/date
1.06gr 10mm
0.60gr 9mm
These coins are usually found with coins of the taifa of Valencia.
Prieto supplement n169.
Dirham
Mayurqa (Mallorca)
no date
3.60gr 20mm
The naskhi script on IA may indicate that this coin is not of this period.
Prieto supplement n166