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50 Dirhams - Hassan II Green March 3rd Anniversary
| Issuer | Bank Al-Maghrib |
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| Year | 1978 |
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| Value | 50 Dirhams |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed effigy of King Hassan II facing left, rendered in high relief with finely detailed hair. The portrait occupies the majority of the field, with Arabic legends flanking the bust on both sides. To the right, the royal title and name read vertically in Arabic script; to the left, the designation of the Kingdom of Morocco appears similarly. The design is framed by a rope-pattern inner border and an outer reeded rim. |
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| Obverse lettering | الحسن الثاني المملكة المغربية (Translation: Hassan II Kingdom of Morocco) |
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The Green March of November 1975 was Hassan II's masterstroke of nationalist mobilization — 350,000 Moroccan civilians, carrying flags and Qurans, walked into Spanish-controlled Western Sahara in a calculated act of peaceful occupation that Spain, already destabilized by Franco's death weeks earlier, lacked the political will to repel. Within months, the Madrid Accords transferred the territory, ending Spanish colonial presence there entirely.
This commemorative was struck for the third anniversary of that crossing. Y#144 is a one-year type with no subsequent restrikes recorded.