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½ Dinar Country map
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de Tunisie |
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| Year | 1988-1990 |
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| Thickness | 2.20 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicts a raised relief map of Tunisia occupying the majority of the field. The Arabic legend 'الجمهورية التونسية' (Tunisian Republic) curves along the upper periphery. The date appears in Western numerals at the bottom of the field below the map. |
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| Reverse script | Arabic/Latin |
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Tunisia's ½ Dinar entered circulation during a period of acute economic strain following the 1987 "Medical Coup," in which Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali ousted Habib Bourguiba — the country's founding president — by invoking a constitutional clause declaring him medically unfit to govern. The Banque Centrale de Tunisie was simultaneously navigating IMF-mandated structural adjustment programs that had sparked bread riots the previous year.
The KM#318 attribution places this among a broader coinage reform series introduced under Ben Ali's new government, which sought visible breaks with the Bourguiba-era iconography.