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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 8244122, member: 110504&quot;]This is a dirham of Al-Qadir, emir of the Andalusian taifa of Toledo from 1075 CE until its fall to Alfonso VI of Leon-Castile in 1085.&nbsp; ...He wound up in Valencia, where he was emir until 1092.&nbsp; Two years later, Valencia fell to Alfonso&#039;s sometime protege, Rodrigo Diaz /El Cid.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1451609[/ATTACH]</p><p>The dramatic level of debasement is very common to later coins of the Taifas.&nbsp; These were a patchwork of autonomous emirates arising from the collapse of the residual but regionally unitary Umayyad caliphate.&nbsp; As soon as al-Andalus (Muslim Iberia; most of the peninsula) became as fragmented as the Christian polities to the north were, the Reconquista began in earnest.&nbsp; The debasement symptomizes the considerable amounts of tribute that the Christian polities (in this case Leon-Castile) had already been exacting for decades.&nbsp; ...Yeah, temperamentally, the taifas were kind of the bonobos to the Christian chimpanzees.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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