Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Dinar
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de Tunisie |
|---|---|
| Year | 1973 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of President Habib Bourguiba at centre-left, set against a radiating guilloche underprint in violet and green tones. To the right, a vignette of an industrial refinery complex is rendered in fine line engraving, with two signatures in Arabic script below. The denomination numeral '1' appears at lower left and upper right, with the date 15-10-1973 at lower left and serial number repeated at top left and bottom right. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | البنك المركزي التونسي ورقة نقدية نافذة المفعول بموجب قانون الإصدار دينار واحد |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Tunisia's 1973 1 Dinar was issued during a period when the Banque Centrale de Tunisie was actively consolidating its post-independence note programme, and the continued reliance on Thomas De La Rue reflects a printing relationship that outlasted decolonisation by well over a decade. Offshore production of Tunisian currency drew periodic political criticism domestically through the mid-1970s, as the country pushed toward greater economic self-determination.
The watermark is the sole mechanical security feature — no security thread, no fluorescent elements. That simplicity made the series a known target for skilled counterfeiting in North Africa during the 1970s.