Almohads Taifas

Coins of al-Andalus Tonegawa collection
Almohad Taifas

Banu Hud
Sabta (Ceuta)
Ishbiliyya (Sevilla)
Labla (Niebla)

Banu Hud بنو هود

Muhammad al-Mutawakkil محمّد بن يوسف بن هود المتوكل 625-635 / 1228-1238
Dirham Qurtuba (Cordoba) 1.54gr 17mm Vives 2134	1/2 Dirham no mint 0.55gr 13mm 0.47gr 13mm Vives 2135	1/2 Dirham Ishbiliya ( Sevilla) 0.54gr 13mm Vives 2137	1/4 Dirham no mint 0.32gr 10mm Ibrahim ( 1996) nº27
Dirham no mint 1.52gr 17mm Vives 2140	Dirham Ishbiliya (Sevilla) 1.42gr 17mm Vives 2141	Dirham Ishbiliya (Sevilla) gr 17mm Vives 2141	Dirham Qurtuba (Cordoba) 1.54gr 17mm Vives 2143
Dirham Malqa (Malaga) 1.22gr 15mm Vives 2144	Dirham Mursiya (Murcia) 1.22gr 17mm Vives 2145	False of this ruler. Copper silver plated dirham 1.46gr 17mm as Vives 2140	1/2 Dirham Copper with traces of silver 0.56gr 14mm as Vives 2135
Muhammad al-Wathiq أبو بكر محمّد بن محمّد بن يوسف الواثق 635-636 (seven months) / 1238 661-664 / 1263- 1266
1/2 dirham Shatiba (Jativa) 0.56gr 12mm R.Lorente (1984) 133	Dirham Mursiya (Murcia) 1.52gr 18mm Vives 2152 R.Lorente 129	Dirham Shatiba (Jativa) 1.50gr 18mm Vives 2153	Dirham no mint 1.46gr 17mm as Vives 2153 but no mint name.
Dirham no mint 1.56gr 17mm Vives 2154 R.Lorente 131
Muhammad Baha' al-Dawla محمّد بن محمّد بن هود بهاء الدولة 639-659 / 1241- 1260
Dinar 644 - Mursiya (Murcia) 2.25gr 22mm R. Lorente, 104	Dinar 648 - Mursiya (Murcia) 2.22gr 22mm	½ dinar 649 - Mursiya (Murcia) 1.18gr 15mm	Dinar 651 - Mursiya (Murcia) 2.32gr 22mm
Anonymous coins attributable to the Banu Hud
1/8 Dinar no mint 0.53gr 13 mm found with silver coins of the Banu Hud & is stylistically very similar to the scarce gold of this dynasty.
The following two coins have been attributed to al-Mutawakkil‘s brief, three month, occupation of Sabta in 630 (see Hazard, pg. 272). It is nevertheless just as possible that they could have been struck by a-Yanashti, the independent ruler of Sabta from 630 till 635. Note that the following four coins all recognise the ’Abbasid khalif which is emblematic in this period as being anti Almohade. The last two with the mint of Mursiya are different from the first two in the third line of the IA, this may be indicative that they were not struck by the same authority.
Dirham no mint 1.54gr 14x14mm Hazard 1118 R.Lorente 138 This coin.	Dirham Sabta (Ceuta) 1.52gr 14x14mm Hazard 1117 R.Lorente 137
Dirham mint seems to be an abbreviation of Mursiya (Murcia) 1.48gr 15x15mm	Dirham Mursiya (Murcia) 1.01gr 12X12mm

Sabta (Ceuta)

Abu al-´Abbas Ahmad al Yanashti أبو العباس أحمد اليانشتي 630-635 / 1232-1237
Dinar Thaghr Sabta (Frountier of Ceuta) 631H 4.52gr 29mm No coins in the name of this ruler had been previously registered. see Arabic reading	After the rebellion of Ceuta against Ibn Hud of Murcia, one of its notables, Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Yanashti, is proclaimed as ruler. On this coin we read that he takes the title of al-Muwafaq and recognizes the nominal suzerainty of the ’Abbasid Al-Mustansir. This recognition of the Abbasids would signal in the politics of the time an anti-Almohad orientation. The use of the word *thaghr*/frontier before the mint name seems to be related to the insecurity that must have been felt in the face of the growing naval power of the Christian states. Actually Ceuta did suffer a stiff siege in 633/1235 by the Genovese fleet in retaliation for mistreatment of some of its merchants established in it. The siege would only be lifted after a hefty payment. In 635/1237 there is another tumultuous political change and Yanashti looses power and is imprisoned. Ceuta then reverts, temporarily, to Almohade allegiance.
Dirham Sabta al-Mahrusa (Ceuta the protected) 635H 1.60gr 16mm Bréthes 27 Hazard 1121	Even though this coin names only the ’Abbasid al-Mustansir, there can be no doubt that it was struck by Yanashti in his last year in power. The reason being that his fall from power was due to a pro Almohad rebellion at the end of the said year. Just after that Sabta would start to strike coins in the name of Almohad ’Abd al-Wahid II.
Ibn Khalas 635-647 / 1237-1249 أبو علي إبن خلاص
Dinar Sabta (Ceuta) 4.68gr 27mm Brèthes 1234 Hazard 553 R.Lorente/Ibrahim (1987) 179 this coin	Ibn Khalas, the Almohade appointed governor of Sabta, rebels in 640 and proclaims Hafsid suzerainty recognising Abu Zakariya Yahya as is attested by this coin.
Anonymous coins of Sabta, probably of this period.
1/16 of a dinar Sabta (Ceuta) 0.23gr 9mm Ibrahim (1966) 29
1/2 Dirham Sabta (Ceuta) 0.53gr 12x12mm Ibrahim (1966) 30	1/4 dirham Sabta (Ceuta) 0.42gr 9x9mm

Ishbiliyya (Sevilla)

Ahmmad ibn Muhammad al-Badji أحمد بن محمد الباجي 629 - 631 / 1231- 1233
Dirham Ishbiliya (Sevilla) 1.40gr 15x 15mm	Dirham Ishbiliya (Sevilla) 1.51gr 15x 15mm

Labla (Niebla)

Musa ibn Mahfuz موسى بن محمد بن نصير بن محفوط المستعين Amir al-Gharb 631-660/1234-1262
Dirham no mint 1.50gr 15x15mm 1.48gr 15x15mm Vives 2123 (three die variants)	Dirham no mint 1.56gr 14x14mm 1.56gr 14x14mm as Vives 2123 but with word djal on top of the word al-Musta’in (two die variants).	Dirham no mint 1.64gr 14x14mm 1.58gr 14x14mm as Vives 2123 but with the beginning alif top of al-’Abbasi (two die variants)	Dirham no mint 1.58gr 14x14 mm as Vives 2123 but alif top of sin of al-’Abbasi and djal top of the word al-Mustansir.
Dirham no mint 1.58gr 14x15mm Vives 2123 variant with three lines in the IA. Ibrahim (1996) 28

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