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Dirham - Moulay Sulayman 1st Standard, Rabat al-Fath
| Issuer | Morocco |
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| Year | 1792-1794 |
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| Weight | 2.74 g |
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| Obverse description | Central field dominated by the Sharifian royal emblem, a stylized Arabic script device enclosing the mint name and date numerals, all set within a raised inner circle. A serrated or toothed border ring surrounds the central device, itself enclosed by a plain raised outer rim. The design is characteristically bold and compressed, executed in the hammered tradition of Alaoui Moroccan coinage, with pellets and decorative annulets punctuating the interstices of the calligraphic composition. |
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| Obverse lettering | رباط الفتح |
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Moulay Sulayman's accession in 1792 came after a period of succession disputes following the death of his brother Mohammed IV, and the early coinage of his reign reflects that instability — multiple mints struck silver simultaneously to assert administrative reach. Rabat al-Fath, the dynastic mint on the Bou Regreg, was among the first authorized. The short window of this first standard, abandoned by 1794 in favor of revised weight norms, makes the emission narrower than the regnal dates alone suggest.