SPECIFICATIONS
10 Centimes
Composition: Brass plated steel
Weight: 3.00 g
Diameter: 20.00 mm
Thickness: 1.40 mm
20 Centimes
Composition: Brass plated steel
Weight: 4.00 g
Diameter: 23.00 mm
Thickness: 1.50 mm
1/2 Dirham
Composition: Nickel plated steel
Weight: 4.00 g
Diameter: 21.00 mm
Thickness: 1.70 mm
1 Dirham
Composition: Nickel plated steel
Weight: 6.00 g
Diameter: 24.00 mm
Thickness: 1.70 mm
5 Dirhams
Ring composition: CuNi
Center composition: Nordic gold
Weight: 7.50 g
Diameter: 25.00 mm
Thickness: 2.00 mm
10 Dirhams
Ring composition: Nordic gold
Center composition: CuNi
Weight: 9.00 g
Diameter: 27.00 mm
Thickness: 2.10 mm
(news by Michael Reissner)
(information from Bank Al-Maghrib)
LINK: Bank Al-Maghrib
The official descriptions of the coins:
ReplyDelete10 centimes: Bee and saffron flower.
20 centimes: The water lily and water protection.
½ dirham: Fish, coral, and the protection of the seabed. *
1 dirham: National sovereignty.
5 dirham: Mosque of Hassan II, an architectural feat of the 20th century.
10 dirham: Kalâat M’gouna, a town in the heart of Morocco.
* The species of the fish is not given.
Another beautiful collection of African coins. It would be interesting to know what the motives stand for.
ReplyDeletehi,is it legal to go out from morooce with big countity of coins?
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Now is no longer banned, and I even found that someone brought out hundreds of coins of 1, 5 and 10 DH in 1999, while that was banned.
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