
Mohamed Rasul Allah ("Mohammed in the messenger of God") in two lines // Bismillah al-Mulk-li-illahi ("In the name of God, the Kingdom belongs to God"). 18mm, 2.22 grams. Uncertain mint in Spain. Monedas Andalusies #432ff; Walker 742.
In 711 Muslim forces invaded and in seven years conquered the Iberian peninsula. It became one of the great Muslim civilizations; reaching its summit with the Umayyad caliphate of Cordoba in the tenth century.