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| Issuer | Morocco |
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| Year | 1894 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#Pn22 |
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| Obverse lettering | ضرب في فاس 1311 |
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| Mintage | 1311 (1894) |
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Pattern coinage under Moulay al-Hasan I occupied an awkward position in Moroccan monetary history — the sultan was attempting to rationalize a chaotic currency system under intense European commercial pressure, yet most pattern strikes of this period never advanced to circulation. The Fes mint, one of the oldest continually operating mints in the Islamic world, produced these trial pieces as the Makhzen weighed denominations and alloy standards ahead of the broader reforms that would ultimately be pushed further by French financial interests after his death in 1894.