2 Falus - Sidi Mohammed IV 2nd Standard, Fes

Sidi Mohammed IV ruled during Morocco's most turbulent decades of the nineteenth century — the aftermath of the disastrous 1860 war with Spain, which ended with the Treaty of Wad-Ras and an indemnity so crushing it forced Morocco to cede Tétouan and restructure its entire fiscal apparatus. Bronze coinage from this reign circulated in an economy under severe strain, and the Fes mint was operating under conditions that produced considerable variation between strikes. The "2nd Standard" designation distinguishes a revised weight and die specification introduced mid-reign as the makhzen attempted to stabilize petty coinage against rampant counterfeiting.