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5 Dirhams - Mohammed VI
| Issuer | Bank Al-Maghrib |
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| Year | 2011-2023 |
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| Composition | Bimetallic: nordic gold centre in copper-nickel ring |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Bank Al-Maghrib introduced this bimetallic dirham series following Mohammed VI's broader monetary modernization program, which also included the redesign of banknotes in the mid-2000s. Morocco's dirham had been inconvertible since the 1970s, and domestic coinage design has long served as one of the few spaces where the palace exercises direct symbolic control over public-facing state identity.
Nordic gold — the same copper-aluminum-zinc-tin alloy used in euro coins — was adopted partly for its resistance to counterfeiting and partly because Moroccan mints lacked the infrastructure to sustain fine-metal bimetallic production at volume.