Help Identifying Islamic Coin (Id: 12th Century Almoravid Quirate)

eman7blue ... cool coin ...I can be of no help identifying, but it would be helpful if you can provide the weight (grams / 0.000) & diameter (mm) of this coin ...kudos on the nice, sharp photos, btw,,,


...also numista.com is a good search/reference ...

That Numista coin is probably it. I was looking at the obverse upside-down! The reverse is a bit different though, would be nice to know what it says.

Thank you for the help!

(Also if it matters, the weight is 0.98g and the size is 10.7mm which matches the one in Numista)

No, they say essentially the same thing. The script on your coin is somewhat coarser in style but the lettering is the same.

I'd mostly agree with the transcriptions assigned to it by Numista, except for the second line; it doesn't just say "rasul allah" (messenger of Allah) it says "Mohammad rasul allah", naming the prophet in question.

The translation of the last line is also problematic; it says "al-amir sayr"; al-Amir is easy, it's a royal rank (often spelled "Emir"), equivalent to the European "Prince" or sometimes "King". But "Sayr" doesn't mean "Sir", it means something like "traveller" or perhaps "wanderer"; it's not the usual word to denote a "pilgrim". The context implies it might be someone's name, and it's not the Amir's own name as that is "Ali ibn Yusuf", given on the other side of the coin. But looking up this ruler on Wikipedia it states he did have a son named "Syr", who did not go on to succeed him as Amir (so presumably died in his youth).

There's no evidence that Syr himself was ever given any authority over a mint in the Almoravid empire, so I would assume this is Amir Ali ibn Yusuf naming his son Syr on his coin as his hopeful successor (a hope which did not ultimately eventuate).

Seriously? I need to shop there (wherever there is).
Sap and jecz79, thanks for providing great context for the coin!