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1/2 Dinar
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de Tunisie |
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| Year | 1965 |
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| Size | 145 × 74 mm |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette reproduces a polychrome ancient mosaic from Monastir, in which three Phoenician merchants engage in trade beside a large sailing vessel with billowing sails; a winged figure is perched at the bow of the ship, with marine fauna including a fish and a lobster rendered in the surrounding sea. The denomination is stated in the lower centre and at the lower left and right corners. The bank name runs across the top in a serif letterpress inscription. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Tunisia's central bank had only been operating independently for a few years when this note was printed — the Banque Centrale de Tunisie was established in 1958, replacing the colonial-era Institut d'Émission, and the early 1960s series represented a deliberate effort to build a visually coherent national currency from scratch. De La Rue handled several of these early Tunisian issues, a common arrangement for newly independent francophone states that lacked domestic printing infrastructure.
The half-dinar denomination was always a minor workhorse of everyday transactions, and surviving examples in genuinely uncirculated state are harder to find than the higher values from the same series.