Mazuna - Sidi Mohammed III 3rd Standard, Tetuan

Sidi Mohammed III — more properly Mohammed ben Abdallah — undertook a systematic reform of Moroccan coinage beginning in the 1770s, establishing a network of regional mints to supply a fragmented economy where Spanish, Dutch, and Ottoman coins circulated alongside domestic issues. Tetuan's mint served the northern corridor, heavily influenced by Mediterranean trade and proximity to the Spanish presidio of Ceuta. The mazuna denomination sat at the fractional base of this reformed structure.

The B-prefix in Krause reflects ongoing scholarly uncertainty about the precise attribution sequence across mint cities for this type.