Note and Coin News

• Bank Al-Maghrib has issued new 50 dirham banknote, the third in its new series. The new banknote, which highlights Morocco’s sustainable development through the national strategy for clean energy and the protection of natural resources, is understood to be the first note to feature a TRILUMIC® thread from Hueck Folien.

In common with the new 100 and 200 dirhams issued last year, the front of the note includes a portrait of King Mohammed VI and the Kingdom’s coat-of-arms, along with an architectural motif inspired by Moroccan doors, and a stylised view of the Ouzoud Waterfalls.

The back of the banknote includes vignettes of the Noor Solar Station in Ouarzazate, wind turbines, the Ouirgane dam, and the Agadir seawater desalination plan.

The new banknote incorporates a series of advanced security features, including the TRIMULIC windowed thread with a dynamic bluetogreen colour shift, a metallised five-pointed star, DH (dirham), and 50.

TRIMULIC, developed in conjunction with the Banque de France, was launched in 2019 for stripes. In 2021, the product range was extended to threads. It combines Hueck Folien’s ColorSwitch™ technology with proprietary hidden halftone images that create brilliant RBG truecolour images when exposed to UV light.