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Falus - al-Rashid Fes
| Issuer | Morocco |
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| Year | 1671-1672 |
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| Weight | 3.97 g |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by a bold Arabic inscription in Maghrebi script reading 'Struck in the city of Fes', rendered in multiple lines across the flan. The legends are set within a plain, unbordered field on this crudely struck hammered bronze coin. The irregular flan shows characteristic surface texture of 17th-century Moroccan copper coinage, with slight edge crenulations typical of hand-cut blanks. No figurative design elements are present, the inscription alone serving as the principal device. |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Struck under Moulay al-Rashid, the founder of the Alaoui dynasty, this issue dates to the final years of his reign — he died in 1672, reportedly thrown from his horse while riding through an orange grove in Marrakech. The Fes mint was the prestige house of the Sharifian coinage system, and al-Rashid had taken the city by force in 1666 before consolidating Moroccan territory for the first time in decades under a single authority.