1/2 Dinar

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.