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½ Dinar Country map
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de Tunisie |
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| Year | 1988-1990 |
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| Currency | Dinar (1958-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | الجمهورية التونسية 1988 |
| Reverse description | The central field depicts two outstretched hands cradling agricultural produce, including a wheat stalk and oranges or citrus fruits, symbolising development and prosperity. The engraver's name 'ELMEKKI' appears in the lower left field. The Arabic legend 'البنك المركزي التونسي' (Central Bank of Tunisia) curves along the upper periphery. The denomination 'نصف ½ دينار' (Half Dinar) is inscribed along the lower margin in a combination of Arabic script and Western numerals. |
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Tunisia's ½ Dinar coin of this period was issued under the presidency of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who had deposed Habib Bourguiba in a November 1987 "medical coup" — just months before the first pieces entered circulation. The Banque Centrale had been preparing the issue under Bourguiba's government; Ben Ali's administration simply inherited it.
The three-year production window coincides with the early phase of Tunisia's IMF-guided structural adjustment program, which severely contracted public spending and contributed to the bread riots of 1984 just years prior.