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1 Dinar FAO, Essai
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de Tunisie |
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| Year | 1976 |
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| Currency | Dinar (1958-date) |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed right-facing effigy of Habib Bourguiba, President of the Tunisian Republic, rendered in high relief with fine detail on the hair and facial features. The portrait is centrally positioned within the field, with an Arabic legend curving around the upper and lower periphery. The date 1976 appears in Western numerals at the base of the portrait below the legend. The inscription names the subject and his presidential title in Arabic script. |
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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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Tunisia's FAO coinage program in the 1970s tied directly to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's campaign to promote agricultural self-sufficiency across developing nations. Essai pieces — the French trial strike tradition carried into post-independence Tunisian minting practice — were produced in small quantities for official approval and distribution to collectors and institutions, never reaching circulation. KM#E36 is among the scarcer essai entries in the Tunisian series, with documented examples rarely surfacing outside specialist auctions.