UMAYYAD SPAIN: ‘Abd al-Rahman II (822-852) AE fals. 1.82g, 19mm.
Anonymous type
Album 346, Frochoso I-2 (taurine lam-alifs), Zeno 28295

‘Abd al-Rahman II was the fourth Umayyad Emir of Córdoba. He founded Murcia, signed a treaty with the Byzantine empire against the Abbasids, and engaged in almost continuous warfare with the increasingly powerful kingdom of Asturias, initiators of the Reconquista.