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5 Santimat / Centimes - Mohammed VI
| Issuer | Bank Al-Maghrib |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Value | 5 Centimes |
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| Obverse description | The Royal Arms of Morocco displayed centrally, featuring a shield charged with a green pentagram on a red field beneath a rising sun, surmounted by a royal crown and flanked by two rampant lion supporters. A ribbon at the base of the shield bears an Arabic inscription. The Arabic legend 'المملكة المغربية' (Kingdom of Morocco) is inscribed along the lower portion of the field. |
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| Obverse lettering | المملكة المغربية |
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Morocco's 2002 coinage reform under Mohammed VI consolidated a fractional system that had become economically irrelevant — the 5 santimat piece represents purchasing power so eroded by that point that it functioned more as arithmetic than commerce. Bank Al-Maghrib retained the denomination largely for accounting continuity rather than practical necessity.
The aluminium bronze alloy adopted here replaced earlier compositions as part of a broader effort to reduce minting costs on low-value pieces, a move replicated across North African monetary systems during the same decade.