Coins of al-Andalus Tonegawa collection
ALMORAVIDS المرابطون
Banu Ghaniya-The last Almoravid governors. بنو غانية
Córdoba till 543H.
Granada till 549H.
Mallorca till 599H.
Ibn Malik – unknown except for coins. إبن مالك
With Hilal as heir.
Anonymous but attributable to ibn Qasi.
Abu Talib al-Zuhri 540? / 1141? أبو طالب الزهري
Ruler of Badja, briefly recognising ibn Qasi.
Recognising Hamdin of Córdoba.
Nominal Abbasid recognition.
Almohade recognition. (?)
The following mint Sharish ( Jerez) , as was long ago suggested by A. Delgado, is probably Jerez de los Caballeros, located south of Badajoz and west of Zafra. See Ibn Malik for a coin of the mint of Zafra which may be a coin of this Muhammad ibn ’Ali.
Abu Fadl ’Iyad 541- 543 / 1146- 1148 أبو الفضل إياض
’Iyad was reconfirmed by the Almohads as Qadi of Sabta in 541, as a strict Sunni Maliki he could not at heart but view the Almohads as heterodox and participated in an unsuccessful revolt against them in 543. These Quirats were probably struck during the short period of feigned allegiance to the Almohads.
Alfonso VIII 553-611 / 1158-1214
This ruler struck in Toledo, for more than thirty years, Almoravid type coins with the Catholic credo written in Arabic. These coins affirm the Trinitarian doctrine, the Pope as Imam and Alfonso as amir. In small decorative details they imitate the coins struck in Murcia by Muhammad ibn Sa’d in. The coins are dated by the Safar calendar, a dating which starts 38 years before the Christian era and commemorates the complete submission of the Peninsula to Roman authority. This, incidentally, may indicate that the 6th century innovation, the Christian calendar, had up to then made slow progress in the medieval Christian states of the Iberian peninsula. The documents and contracts of the period were also dated in the Safar calendar.
