5 Dirhams - Moulay al-Hasan I

Moulay al-Hasan I spent much of his reign on horseback, conducting exhausting military expeditions — known as harkats — into the Moroccan interior to extract taxes and reassert makhzen authority over tribal confederations that had grown increasingly autonomous. The treasury demands of these campaigns directly shaped coinage policy, and the Paris and Birmingham mints both supplied striking capacity when the Fez mint could not keep pace.

His death in 1894 mid-harkat, discovered only after his body was secretly transported back to Rabat to prevent tribal revolt, effectively ended the last period of coherent pre-colonial Moroccan monetary independence.