Triton XVIII, Lot: 1467. Estimate $300. Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, al-Maghreb (North Africa). Almohads (al-Muwahhidun). Abu Ya'qub Yusuf I. AH 558-580 / AD 1163-1184. AV Half Dinar (22mm, 2.31 g, 12h). Hazard’s First series. Uncertain mint, possibly Ishbiliyah (Seville). Struck AH 563-580 (AD 1168-1184). Bismillah and Kalima in four lines within double linear quadrate frame; first portion of Kalima and epithets in outer margins / Titles and genealogy in four lines within double linear quadrate frame; name and titles of Abu Ya'qub Yusuf I in outer margins. Cf. Hazard 497 (for type, but with mint name); cf. Lavoix 725 (same); Album 483. Good VF, toned.

From the Joseph R. Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, purchased from Baldwin’s, 12 August 1994.