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10 Dinars 2006 Coup d'état 19th Anniversary, French legend
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de Tunisie |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Diameter | 28 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A stylized dove in flight rendered in a modern graphic style dominates the left and lower portions of the field, its sweeping wings filling much of the design. To the right, an atom symbol — a central sphere encircled by elliptical orbital rings — represents science and progress. A multi-line French legend occupies the upper field. The dual date 2006 / 1427, corresponding to the Gregorian and Hijri calendars respectively, appears in the lower left field. |
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Tunisia's "Coup d'état" commemoratives mark the November 7, 1987 removal of Habib Bourguiba by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali — achieved without bloodshed through a physician's declaration that Bourguiba was mentally unfit to govern. Ben Ali's government institutionalized the date as a national holiday and issued a long-running series of commemorative gold pieces tied to its anniversaries. The French-legend variant exists alongside an Arabic-legend counterpart, reflecting Tunisia's bilingual official culture rather than any separate issuing authority.
By the 2006 issue, Ben Ali himself would be deposed in 2011 — making the entire anniversary series an awkward relic of a regime that ended the same way it began.