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Dirham - Sidi Mohammed III 1st Standard, Fes Hazrat
| Issuer | Alaouite Sultanate |
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| Year | 1759-1775 |
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| Value | 1 Dirham |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse lettering | محمد بن عبد الله امير المؤمنين ضرب بفاس سنة ١١٨٣ |
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Sidi Mohammed III — properly Mohammed ben Abdallah — reorganized Moroccan coinage systematically after decades of monetary instability under his predecessors. His 1st Standard dirham established a fixed weight norm that hadn't been reliably enforced since the early Saadian period. Fes Hazrat, meaning "the presence of Fez," was the principal mint and the one most closely supervised by the makhzen.
The regnal span of this type crosses the founding of Essaouira in 1765, a city Mohammed III built largely to redirect Atlantic trade away from European-controlled Agadir.