Morocco 1980 50 dirhams
This specimen was lot 1307 in Stephen Album internet sale 28 (Santa Rosa, CA, July 2024), where it sold for $144. The catalog description[1] noted, "MOROCCO: al-Hassan II, 1962-1999, AR 50 dirhams, 1980/AH1400, 5th Anniversary of the Green March in the Spanish Sahara, a few small reverse spots, mintage of only 1,000 pieces, UNC, R, ex Dr. Wolfgang Schuster Collection." Shown here is the silver version; a few exist struck in gold (Y146a). Wikipedia comments, "The Green March was a strategic mass demonstration in November 1975, coordinated by the Moroccan government and military, to force Spain to hand over...Spanish Sahara to Morocco. ...Morocco gained control of most of the former Spanish Sahara, which it still holds to this day. The refusal of the Saharawi people to submit to the Moroccan monarchy gave rise to the Western Sahara conflict, still unresolved today, and whose main episode was the Western Sahara War."
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 35 g, 0.925 fine silver, 42 mm diameter, or 60.14 g, 0.900 fine gold (KM Y146a).
Catalog reference: KM Y146 (silver) or KM 146a (gold).
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Internet Auction 28, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.
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