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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 description | Bare-headed left-facing effigy of King Hassan II occupies the central field, rendered in high relief with finely detailed hair and facial features in a naturalistic portrait style by engraver David Wynne. The bust is truncated at the neck and positioned slightly right of center. An Arabic legend curves along the left peripheral field reading the kingdom name, while the royal title appears along the lower right field. The coin is framed by a rope-style inner border with a reeded outer rim. |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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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.