Morocco to release new series of circulation coins

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Morocco is due to release a new series of circulation coins, and with
thematic designs at that, very soon:

http://www.yabiladi.com/articles/details/6319/dirham-nouvelle-serie-pieces-monnaie.html

Translation:

A third series of coins, after those of 1987 and 2002, will be
released in the coming days. The news was announced today, Tuesday,
July 26, during a press conference in Rabat, by the director of Dar As-
Sikkah, Lahcen Hadouni, the MAP reports. Two coins of this series,
consisting of six different coins, will be put into circulation on
Thursday, July 28, on the occasion of the feast of the throne: one
dirham coins and 50 cents. Coins of 20 cents, 10 cents, five dirhams
and 10 dirhams, will be issued from November 8, date of the
commemoration of the Green March and Independence Day. The new coins
express the Moroccan general theme "Sustainable development and
environmental protection." "The need to conserve biodiversity, the
mass extinction of bees in the world, the essential shift to
sustainable agriculture and preservation of the relationship between
man and nature" are the major elements expressed in this new series.
The architectural heritage of the kingdom will also be highlighted,
through illustrations of the Hassan II mosque and Kalaat M'gouna.

Artwork showing new coins:

http://i.ycdn.org/files/articles/b8a233c14fce14c15abdd3e7aa4ca26c.jpg

Phil.

[Ice Torch]

Details of the coins can also be found here:

http://worldcoinnews.blogspot.com/2011/08/morocco-2011-new-coin-series.html

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-O_13ac2bEyk/TkbOpKTk3CI/AAAAAAAABj0/KER2Rb0hZ7s/s1600/marr2011.jpg

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And here, in French, at the Bank al-Maghrib's web site:

http://www.bkam.ma/wps/portal/net/kcxml/04_Sj9SPykssy0xPLMnMz0vM0Y_QjzKL94o38gsGSZnFe8QbebvqR2KIuSDEfD3yc1P1g9KKgLKR5vE-8YY-7vpROanpicmV-mF5-UW5QHOD9b31A_QLckMjyn1SHQG4yCe5/delta/base64xml/L3dJdyEvd0ZNQUFzQUcvNElVRS82X0pfMk5T

Click on each denomination listed as "Type 2011".

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Here is my rough translation of the French descriptions:

10 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.
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*** The species of the fish is not given.

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Phil.