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10 Dinars 1996 Coup d'état 9th Anniversary
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de Tunisie |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Arabic, Latin |
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| Mintage | 1417 (1996) - Proof - 200 |
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Tunisia's November 7, 1987 coup — in which Zine El Abidine Ben Ali deposed the aging and increasingly erratic Habib Bourguiba by invoking a medical incapacity clause — was immediately rebranded as a bloodless "Change," and Ben Ali's government made a ritual of commemorating the date annually. These anniversary issues were as much political currency as monetary objects, reinforcing the legitimacy of a takeover that had no electoral mandate behind it.
By the ninth anniversary, the commemorative program was well-established and largely aimed at collector export rather than domestic circulation.