Cádiz: Universidad de Cádiz, Servicio de Publicaciones
Abstract
The Archaeological Museum of Cordoba preserves three large sets of Islamic medieval coins which were minted in al-Andalus before AH 202/AD 817 and which are probably part of a huge hoard found in Villaviciosa (Cordoba) and known of since the third decade of the 20th century. Such a large set of coins, most of them in a particularly good state, provides strong archaeological evidence to sustain that the Umayyad Emirate of al-Andalus undertook the issuing of coins as a legal resource for the market purposes and the politics of taxes. This happened from the times of �Abd al- Raman I, i.e. from the very beginnings of the Emirate, in spite of what has been claimed both in medieval and contemporary historiography.Tres amplios conjuntos de monedas acunadas en al-Andalus antes de 202 H./817 J.C. que se conservan en el Museo Arqueologico de Cordoba forman probablemente parte del gran hallazgo de moneda emiral que se produjo en el municipio cordobes de Villaviciosa y que era conocido desde la tercera decada del siglo XX. El abundante conjunto museistico de monedas, en excelente estado de conservacion, nos proporciona una base arqueologica fehaciente para mantener que el emirato omeya andalusi se comprometio en la tarea de emitir monedas en tanto que recurso legal destinado a los fines del mercado y de la politica fiscal. Esto ocurrio desde los tiempos de �eAbd al-Ram.n I, esto es, desde la constitucion del emirato, a pesar de lo que se ha afirmado en la historiografia contemporanea, a partir de fuentes escritas medievales