Morocco 2000 250 dirhams Y-106
This specimen was lot 1316 in Stephen Album internet sale 28 (Santa Rosa, CA, July 2024), where it sold for $168. The catalog description[1] noted, "MOROCCO: Mohammed VI, 1999-, AR 250 dirhams, 2000/AH1421, 25th Anniversary of the Green March, some hairlines, prooflike, UNC, 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: unknown.
Specification: 25 g, 0.925 fine silver, 37 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM Y106.
- 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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