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Mazuna - Abd al-Aziz Birmingham Mint
| Issuer | Sultanate of Morocco |
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| Year | 1902-1903 |
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| Weight | 1 g |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears the Arabic word 'عام' (meaning 'Year') in bold relief above the Hijri date '1320' in large numerals, all contained within a raised inner circle. The intermediate border features an elaborate interlocking geometric key-pattern frieze, characteristic of Moroccan Sharifian coinage of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The outermost border consists of a fine dentilated rim encircling the entire design. The overall composition is aniconic and purely epigraphic in the Moroccan Islamic tradition. |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Abd al-Aziz inherited the Moroccan throne at age fourteen and governed under the regency of Ba Ahmed until 1900, after which his own rule proved fiscally disastrous — foreign loans, heavy spending on imported novelties, and deepening European financial penetration set the stage for the 1906 Algeciras Conference that effectively stripped Morocco of economic independence. These bronzes were struck at the Birmingham Mint under contract, part of a broader pattern of the Makhzen outsourcing coinage production to European manufacturers as domestic mint capacity at Fez proved inadequate for the volume required.