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500 Dirhams - Hassan II Hassan II Birthday
| Issuer | Bank Al-Maghrib |
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| Year | 1979-1993 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse lettering | الحسن الثاني المملكة المغربية (Translation: Hassan II Kingdom of Morocco) |
| Reverse description | The central field features the Royal Arms of Morocco — a crowned shield bearing a pentagram, supported by two lions rampant — set within a sweeping crescent-shaped laurel branch curving from lower right. To the left of the arms, an outline map of Morocco is depicted. The Hijri year 1410 appears to the right and the Gregorian year 1990 to the left, both in the mid-field. Along the upper border, the Arabic legend commemorating the 9th of July birthday curves around the periphery, while the denomination 500 in Western-Arabic numerals and خمسمائة درهم in Arabic script appear at the bottom of the field. The design is enclosed by a rope-style inner border. |
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Hassan II used coinage aggressively as a tool of political legitimacy throughout his reign, and these birthday issues — struck annually from 1979 — were produced in limited quantities intended largely for presentation and the collector market rather than circulation. Gold issues of this type rarely traded hands commercially inside Morocco itself, where the king's birthday was a national holiday carrying considerable ceremonial weight.
The French Gadoury reference Fr#7 places this firmly within the modern Moroccan gold series catalogued alongside earlier Alaoui dynasty issues, a lineage Hassan consistently invoked.