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1/2 Dinar Habib Bourguiba
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de Tunisie |
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| Year | 1976-1983 |
| Type | Commemorative circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | الحبيب بورقيبة 1976 رئيس الجمهورية التونسية (Translation: Habib Bourguiba 1976 President of the Tunisian Republic) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Tunisia's half-dinar series of this period was tied directly to the socialist economic policies of Bourguiba's single-party state, the Destourian Socialist Party, which kept tight control over monetary circulation throughout the 1970s. Bourguiba had himself named president-for-life in 1975, and coins bearing his portrait from this span effectively functioned as political currency — his image was mandatory on all Tunisian coinage by presidential decree.
The Banque Centrale de Tunisie contracted production to French mints during much of this run, a hangover from the colonial monetary relationship with France that persisted well past independence in 1956.