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Dirham - al-Mahdi citing Musa as heir
| Issuer | Abbasid Caliphate |
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| Year | 782-784 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Mintage | 165 (782) البصرة - Al-Basra 166 (783) البصرة - Al-Basra 167 (784) البصرة - Al-Basra 167 (784) المحمدية - Al-Muhammadiya 168 (784) البصرة - Al-Basra 168 (784) المحمدية - Al-Muhammadiya |
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Al-Mahdi's designation of his son Musa al-Hadi as heir apparent was a calculated move to bypass his more capable — and ultimately more consequential — younger son Harun. Musa reigned for only fourteen months before his death in 786, widely suspected to have been engineered by his own mother al-Khayzuran to clear the way for Harun al-Rashid. Dirhams citing Musa in the heir's position thus document a succession arrangement that collapsed almost immediately, struck across a window of roughly two years before the political calculus changed permanently.