Lot 1307 SPAIN (Al-Andalus), Umayyads, Emirate of Córdoba, AR dirham, Al Hakam I, 190 AH (806 AD), mint of al
SPAIN (Al-Andalus), Umayyads, Emirate of Córdoba, AR dirham, Al Hakam I, 190 AH (806 AD), mint of al Andalus الأندلس, NGC MS 62. Vives-88; Miles-81. Bright with brilliant luster, very bold strike with nearly all inscriptions clear.
With the arrival of the Umayyad prince Abd al Rahman I in al Andalus, Islamic authority was consolidated and the independent Emirate of Córdoba was proclaimed in 756 AD. After a brief period without coin production and a slow initial phase, minting resumed in 150 AH / 767 AD and continued thereafter on a regular basis, focused almost exclusively on silver dirhams. During these years gold dinars were not struck and copper fulus were produced only in very limited quantities.
In terms of design, the inscriptions follow the typological tradition established in the earlier period, maintaining the Umayyad use of Qur’anic sura 112, a formula already abandoned by the Abbasids. This conservative adherence to the Umayyad monetary model would remain characteristic throughout the history of the Emirate and later the Caliphate of Córdoba. Only minor variations appear in the form of small geometric or vegetal ornaments, or as in the present specimen, discreet triangular arrangements of dots incorporated into the field. NGC #8437667-002.
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With the arrival of the Umayyad prince Abd al Rahman I in al Andalus, Islamic authority was consolidated and the independent Emirate of Córdoba was proclaimed in 756 AD. After a brief period without coin production and a slow initial phase, minting resumed in 150 AH / 767 AD and continued thereafter on a regular basis, focused almost exclusively on silver dirhams. During these years gold dinars were not struck and copper fulus were produced only in very limited quantities.
In terms of design, the inscriptions follow the typological tradition established in the earlier period, maintaining the Umayyad use of Qur’anic sura 112, a formula already abandoned by the Abbasids. This conservative adherence to the Umayyad monetary model would remain characteristic throughout the history of the Emirate and later the Caliphate of Córdoba. Only minor variations appear in the form of small geometric or vegetal ornaments, or as in the present specimen, discreet triangular arrangements of dots incorporated into the field. NGC #8437667-002.
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