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Cordoban dinar-dirham accounting: research record

Evidence coverage: AD 916–AD 996. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.

This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.

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Cordoban dinar-dirham accounting

CUR-V31-CORDOBAN-DINAR-DIRHAM · Research draft
One scoped currency identity. Changes to subdivisions, scale, standard, instruments or issuers do not by themselves create children. A distinct account unit can remain a successor.
Dated observations: AD 916–AD 996; this does not establish the entire lifetime.

Parents / predecessors

No distinct predecessor currency is established in the loaded view.

Children / successors

No distinct successor currency is established in the loaded view.

Latest research

Earlier account evidence

Ibn Hayyan's famine account states Cordoban wheat prices in dinar-dirham duhl arbaʿin.

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Earlier account evidence

A December 973 monthly pension is stated as 200 dinars of this reckoning.

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Earlier account evidence

Ibn al-Attar's formulary retains this accounting terminology in Cordoban notarial practice.

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Unit-of-account identity review

Dated prices and liabilities establish an account unit independently of mint issues.

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Account-unit observations

Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.

916supported

Ibn Hayyan's famine account states Cordoban wheat prices in dinar-dirham duhl arbaʿin.

C1913
973supported

A December 973 monthly pension is stated as 200 dinars of this reckoning.

C1914
995–996supported

Ibn al-Attar's formulary retains this accounting terminology in Cordoban notarial practice.

C1915
Evidence & research notes 5 claims

Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.

Supported C1913

Ibn Hayyan's famine account states Cordoban wheat prices in dinar-dirham duhl arbaʿin.

Pedro Chalmeta · El dirham arbaʿīnī, duḫl, qurṭubī, andalusī: su valor, Acta Numismàtica 16 (1986), 113–126 Citation S1007 · Open source ↗

p118 section2.2 note19: Ibn Hayyan, MuqtabasV,71

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C1914

A December 973 monthly pension is stated as 200 dinars of this reckoning.

Pedro Chalmeta · El dirham arbaʿīnī, duḫl, qurṭubī, andalusī: su valor, Acta Numismàtica 16 (1986), 113–126 Citation S1007 · Open source ↗

p118 section2.2 note25: MuqtabisVI,p143,no161

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C1915

Ibn al-Attar's formulary retains this accounting terminology in Cordoban notarial practice.

Pedro Chalmeta · El dirham arbaʿīnī, duḫl, qurṭubī, andalusī: su valor, Acta Numismàtica 16 (1986), 113–126 Citation S1007 · Open source ↗

p119 section2.3 and note26; date385AH/c995–996

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C1950

Dated prices and liabilities establish an account unit independently of mint issues.

Pedro Chalmeta · El dirham arbaʿīnī, duḫl, qurṭubī, andalusī: su valor, Acta Numismàtica 16 (1986), 113–126 Citation S1007 · Open source ↗

See scoped account observations.

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C1956

No inspected record establishes abolition or conversion into a later unit.

Pedro Chalmeta · El dirham arbaʿīnī, duḫl, qurṭubī, andalusī: su valor, Acta Numismàtica 16 (1986), 113–126 Citation S1007 · Open source ↗

p118 section2.2

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

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