Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2463181, member: 76194&quot;][ATTACH=full]516763[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Muwahhids (Almohads), anonymous, c. AH 550&#039;s-658/ AD 1160&#039;s-1269+,</p><p>AR dirham,15mm, 1.45gm, 12h, no mint, undated.</p><p>Obv.: la ilah illa Allah / al-amr kolluhu li-&#039;llah / la quwat illa billah (&quot;There is no god but Allah. All power belongs to Allah. There is no strength except in Allah&quot;).</p><p>Rev.: Allah rabbuna / Muhammad rassuluna / al-Mahdi imamuna (&quot;Allah is our Lord. Muhammad is our Prophet. The Mahdi is our imam&quot;).</p><p>Reference: Hazard 1101; Hohertz 21; Album 496.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now that I&#039;m after medieval coinage, I couldn&#039;t pass up this medieval Islamic coin. The Almohad Caliphate was the last Islamic Caliphate to hold Iberian territory. They were a Berber tribe in North Africa which came to power after overthrowing their Almoravid rulers.&nbsp; Under their leadership, Islamic armies saw terrible losses to the Christian kingdoms in Iberia, shrinking Muslim holdings in the peninsula to a confined area in the south. In 1238 Iberian Muslims had enough, and seized power to form the Emirate of Granada, the last Islamic kingdom in the Iberian peninsula, which collapsed in 1492 under the forces of Ferdinand and Isabella.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in