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10 Dinars 2004 Coup d'état 17th Anniversary, Arabic legend
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de Tunisie |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#453 |
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| Reverse description | Central motif depicts a stylised winged crescent and star symbol, rendered in a dynamic, modern graphic style evoking forward movement and national progress, set against a proof-finished field. Within the upper arc of the design, the Arabic legend 'الانتخابات الرئاسية والتشريعية' (Presidential and Legislative Elections) is inscribed in three lines. The dual dates '1425 / 2004' appear in the lower centre field, representing the Hijri and Gregorian years respectively. Along the lower periphery, a curved Arabic legend reads 'الذكرى السابعة عشرة لتحول السابع من نوفمبر' (17th Anniversary of the 7 November Change), with additional Arabic text along the left margin completing the commemorative inscription. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The "coup d'état" in question is Ben Ali's removal of the aging Bourguiba on November 7, 1987 — accomplished not by tanks but by a panel of seven doctors who declared the president medically unfit to govern. Ben Ali, then prime minister, assumed power the same night. The Tunisian state thereafter treated November 7 as a founding moment of the "New Era," commemorating it annually with official ceremony and, periodically, struck silver issues like this one.
By 2004, Ben Ali was in his seventeenth year of rule, having amended the constitution twice to extend term limits. The commemorative framing of a bloodless medical coup as national liberation was entirely deliberate.