v20_0147 - CALIPHATE UMAYYAD - AL WALID Dirhem

MONNAIES 20 (2004)
Starting price : 75.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
Realised price : 99.00 €
Number of bids : 4
Maximum bid : 372.00 €

Type : Dirhem

Date: 95 AH

Date: 713-714

Mint name / Town : province de Fars, Istakhr

Metal : silver

Diameter : 28 mm

Orientation dies : 7 h.

Weight : 2,91 g.

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un flan large et complet

Catalogue references :

Mit.54 VAR. - Album128

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire provient de la collection Delorme

Obverse

Obverse legend : LÉGENDE ARABE CIRCULAIRE ET EN QUATRE LIGNES AU CENTRE.

Obverse description : dans un double grènetis.

Obverse translation : (Il n'y a pas d'autre Dieu que Dieu et il ne lui est pas d'associé).

Reverse

Reverse legend : LÉGENDE ARABE CIRCULAIRE ET EN TROIS LIGNES AU CENTRE.

Reverse description : dans un quadruple grènetis.

Reverse translation : (Dieu est un, Dieu est éternel) tiré de la sourate 112 du Coran complétée par la légende circulaire (Et Mahomet est son prophète).

Commentary

Pour l’atelier d’Istakhr, la frappe débute en l’an 79 pour se terminer en l’an 102.

Historical background

CALIPHATE UMAYYAD - AL WALID

(705-715 = 86-96 AH)

The Umayyads descend from Moawiyya and belonged to the clan of the Qureishites (like Muhammad). They will reign from 661 to 750 in Damascus and from 756 to 1031 in Cordoba. The founder of the dynasty is Moawiyya I (660-680) who put an end to the elective and religious caliphate and replaced it with a hereditary and political caliphate. There were fourteen Umayyad Caliphs of Damascus. El Walid succeeded Abd el-Malik (685-705). He favored the Umayyad expansion in the East by conquering Belouchistan and Sindh in 711 and in the West, by beginning the conquest of Spain, which was completed in 718 under Omar II (717-720). The Caliphate stretches from the Pyrenees to the Himalayas; too large, it will break up and fall under the blows of the Abbasids who massacre the Omayyads of Damascus. Charles-Martel, mayor of the Palace, had stopped the progression of Islam in 732, near Poitiers.