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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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| Currency | Hammered/Cast Coinage (1659-1882) |
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| Obverse lettering | رباط الفتح |
| Reverse description | Central field bearing a stylized Arabic calligraphic device, presenting the royal legend in an interlaced and compressed form within a raised inner circle. The inscription is arranged in an ornate, interlocking format typical of Moroccan Alaoui hammered dirhams, with pellets dispersed among the letterforms. A toothed inner border ring encloses the central device, surrounded by a plain raised outer rim; the flan is irregular in outline, consistent with hand-hammered production methods of the period. |
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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.