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10 Dinars 2009 (22nd Anniversary of 7 November 1987 Coup d'état)
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de Tunisie |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Weight | 38 g |
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| Obverse lettering | الجمهورية التونسية 1430-2009 |
| Reverse description | Central design depicts an open book — representing the Tunisian Constitution — set before a classical columned building rendered in relief, symbolising law and governance. Overlaid on the open book is the numeral '50' in a stylised design, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Constitution. Below the book, concentric elliptical rings surround a crescent and star motif. Two five-pointed stars flank the lower field, and olive branches frame the dual date legend '1430 - 2009' along the lower exergue. The commemorative Arabic legend arcs around the full periphery, reading 'The Twenty-Second Anniversary of the Seventh of November — The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Constitution'. |
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The "7 November" date commemorated here refers to the bloodless coup in which Zine El Abidine Ben Ali deposed the aging Habib Bourguiba, Tunisia's founding president, by invoking a medical incapacity clause — a move coordinated with the prime minister's office and announced on state radio before dawn. Ben Ali rebranded the event as a national "Change," and its anniversary became a mandatory fixture in Tunisian civic life for over two decades. Coins like this one were part of that annual ritual of institutional self-congratulation.
The irony is sharp: Ben Ali himself fled the country in January 2011, just two years after this piece was struck.