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Dinar - Isma'il Fes Hazrat
| Issuer | Morocco |
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| Year | 1678-1724 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by a multi-line Arabic religious legend in bold hammered script, comprising the Shahada and related pious formulae arranged in three or four horizontal lines. The inscription is enclosed within a beaded inner circle, itself surrounded by a further band of Arabic marginal legend filling the outer field to the irregular flan edge. The lettering is deeply struck in high relief, characteristic of Alaouite hammered gold coinage of the late 17th and early 18th century. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Isma'il ibn Sharif ruled Morocco for 55 years — one of the longest reigns in Alaoui dynasty history — and spent much of it in open conflict with Ottoman-aligned powers to the east while simultaneously expelling the English from Tangier and the Spanish from Larache. The Fes Hazrat mint designation marks this as struck at the royal mint in Fez, his administrative capital, during a period when he was consolidating Alaoui legitimacy through both military force and conspicuous religious patronage.
The 46-year span of this type reflects how little the coinage changed across his reign — a deliberate conservatism that itself carried political weight in a dynasty still asserting its Sharifian credentials.