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50 Santimat / Centimes - Hassan II 2nd portrait
| Issuer | Bank Al-Maghrib |
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| Year | 1974 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed effigy of King Hassan II facing left, modelled in high relief with finely detailed hair and facial features, engraved by David Wynne. The royal name and title appear in Arabic script, arranged in two curved groups flanking the portrait: to the left the legend reads 'المملكة المغربية' (Kingdom of Morocco) and to the right 'الحسن الثاني' (Hassan II). The design is contained within a rope-pattern inner border. |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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Hassan II's second portrait coinage of 1974 emerged shortly after Morocco's contentious "Green March" planning period — a moment when the monarchy was working hard to project continuity and legitimacy as the Spanish Sahara question came to a head. Bank Al-Maghrib retooled the portrait series at least partly to reinforce that image of a settled, modernizing sovereign. The copper-nickel alloy chosen for this denomination mirrored a broader regional shift away from silver in fractional coinage during the early 1970s, driven by the spike in silver prices following the collapse of Bretton Woods.