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250 Dirhams - Mohammed VI Green March 30th Anniversary
| Issuer | Bank Al-Maghrib |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Value | 250 Dirhams |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed effigy of King Mohammed VI facing left, rendered in high relief against a plain field. Arabic legend to the left reads the royal title, while a shorter inscription appears to the right. The portrait is executed in a contemporary realistic style with fine facial detail. The coin is bordered by a continuous reeded or rope-pattern inner rim. |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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The Green March of November 1975 was Hassan II's calculated gamble — 350,000 Moroccan civilians, unarmed and carrying flags and Qurans, walked into Spanish-controlled Western Sahara while Spain's dictator Franco lay dying and Madrid had neither the political will nor the military appetite to open fire. It worked. Spain signed the Madrid Accords within weeks, handing administration of the territory to Morocco and Mauritania.
This silver commemorative was issued under Mohammed VI, who inherited both the throne and the unresolved territorial dispute his father manufactured. The Western Sahara question remains before the UN to this day.