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Dirham - Sidi Mohammed III 1st Standard, Rabat al-Fath
| Issuer | Morocco |
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| Year | 1767-1780 |
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| Currency | Hammered/Cast Coinage (1659-1882) |
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| Obverse lettering | أحد أحد 1194 |
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| Mintage | 1180 (1767) - - 1181 (1768) - - 1182 (1769) - - 1194 (1780) - - |
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Sidi Mohammed III — more formally Mohammed ben Abdallah — restructured Moroccan coinage in the 1760s as part of a broader administrative consolidation following decades of civil instability after the death of Ismail ibn Sharif. The Rabat al-Fath mint was among the facilities he brought back into active production during this period, and issues from there tend to be better struck than contemporaries from some provincial mints.
He also founded Essaouira in 1765 as a controlled Atlantic trading port, a move that concentrated European merchant activity and increased demand for standardized silver coinage domestically.