Roma Numismatics Ltd
Auction XXII 7-8 Oct 2021
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Umayyads, time of Yazid II AV Dinar. Al-Andalus mint, AH 102 = AD 721. "There is no God except Him, and One is (he)" in three lines across field; Qur'an IX, 33 around / "In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate" in three lines across field, "Was struck this dinar in al-Andalus year two and one hundred" around. Bernardi 44Aa; Album 134B; Walker p. 101; Vives 14. 4.36g, 18mm, 6h.
Virtually as Struck; slight double striking on rev. and a small metal flaw in field. Very Rare.
From the inventory of a German dealer.
A superb example of the western issues, presumably struck at Cordova during the Governors period at the beginning of the Arab conquest of al-Andalus, whose invasion of the Iberian Peninsula had begun just 10 years earlier in AD 711. Upon their arrival the Muslims began to mint coins to pay for the varied troops that were used for the invasion. These first gold coins were only produced for a brief period between AH 93-95 / AD 712-714, and bear Latin legends following the prototypes of North African emissions, with the date of indiction expressed in Latin according to the Byzantine administrative dating system and with the mint name Hispania (usually abbreviated as SPN).
Following this in AH 98, bilingual types were produced which show on on one side, in Arabic, the first part of the "shahada", the Muslim profession of faith in two lines, and around the formula "this dinar was minted in al-Andalus in 98", the first mention on the coinage of the territories conquered by the Muslims. Finally, the bilingual transitional issues gave way to the purely Islamic coinage, citing al-Andalus as the only mint name and with the disappearance of Latin, in line with the models promoted by the monetary reform of the Umayyad caliph 'Abd al-Malik.
Virtually as Struck; slight double striking on rev. and a small metal flaw in field. Very Rare.
From the inventory of a German dealer.
A superb example of the western issues, presumably struck at Cordova during the Governors period at the beginning of the Arab conquest of al-Andalus, whose invasion of the Iberian Peninsula had begun just 10 years earlier in AD 711. Upon their arrival the Muslims began to mint coins to pay for the varied troops that were used for the invasion. These first gold coins were only produced for a brief period between AH 93-95 / AD 712-714, and bear Latin legends following the prototypes of North African emissions, with the date of indiction expressed in Latin according to the Byzantine administrative dating system and with the mint name Hispania (usually abbreviated as SPN).
Following this in AH 98, bilingual types were produced which show on on one side, in Arabic, the first part of the "shahada", the Muslim profession of faith in two lines, and around the formula "this dinar was minted in al-Andalus in 98", the first mention on the coinage of the territories conquered by the Muslims. Finally, the bilingual transitional issues gave way to the purely Islamic coinage, citing al-Andalus as the only mint name and with the disappearance of Latin, in line with the models promoted by the monetary reform of the Umayyad caliph 'Abd al-Malik.