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It replaced a system consisting of copper falus, silver dirham and gold benduqi. In Spanish Morocco, the rial was replaced by the Spanish peseta in 1912 at a rate of 1 rial = 5 pesetas. In French Morocco, the rial was replaced in 1921 by the franc at a rate of 1 rial = 10 francs.
The Moroccan dirham (Arabic: درهم, romanized: dirham, Moroccan Arabic: درهم, romanized: derhem; sign: DH; code: MAD) is the official monetary currency of Morocco. It is issued by the Bank Al-Maghrib, the central bank of Morocco. One Moroccan dirham is subdivided into 100 santimat (singular: santim; Arabic: سنتيم).
By mid-century, Morocco was in a monetary crisis caused by the decline in value of its currency. [2]: 32 Traditionally, the monetary system in Morocco consisted of a golden mithqal (مثقال), divided into ten uqiyyahs (أوقية), each of which was divided into four muzunas (موزونة), each of which was divided into 48 copper or bronze fils (فِلس).
- South Africa Boer War 10 Pounds Currency Banknote 1900 CU This is a SCARCE HIGH GRADE EARLY BOER WAR Currency Banknote from South Africa. This South African Bank Note was issued by the South African Republic as an Emergency Government Note during the Anglo-Boer War. This Note was issued from Pretoria for 10 Pounds in 1900.
The recorded history of Morocco begins with the Phoenician colonization of the Moroccan coast between the 8th and 6th centuries BCE, [3] although the area was inhabited by indigenous Berbers for some two thousand years before that.
This exchange value of 97.5 piastres to the pound sterling continued until the early 1960s when Egypt devalued slightly and switched to a peg to the United States dollar, at a rate of E£1 = US$2.3. The Egyptian pound continued with its exchange rate of £E = £1 0s 6d sterling until the beginning of the 1960s.
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The word "dirham" (درهم) comes from drachma (δραχμή), the Greek coin. [2] "Dirham" is also the name of the currency in use in Morocco today. Idris I was the founder of the Idrisid dynasty. [3]