Morocco 1985 100 dirhams Y-78
This specimen was lot 1309 in Stephen Album internet sale 28 (Santa Rosa, CA, July 2024), where it sold for $204. The catalog description[1] noted, "MOROCCO: al-Hassan II, 1962-1999, AR 100 dirhams, 1985/AH1406, 10th Anniversary of the Green March, some hairlines, prooflike, mintage of only 1,200 pieces, UNC, S, ex Dr. Wolfgang Schuster Collection." 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: 1,200 plus 200 proofs.
Specification: 15 g, 0.925 fine silver.
Catalog reference: KM Y78.
- 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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