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10 Dinars Coup d'état 21st Anniversary, French legend
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de Tunisie |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Central field features a circular vignette depicting a stylized landscape with three wind turbines at left, a solar panel array at right, a radiant rising sun at upper centre, and a stepped architectural element in the middle ground, all above undulating lines representing terrain or water. Decorative scrollwork flanks the central vignette on either side. The legend RÉPUBLIQUE TUNISIENNE arcs along the upper periphery in Latin script. The Hijri date 1429 appears in Eastern Arabic numerals along the lower rim within the border. |
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| Reverse script | Arabic, Latin |
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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, carried out without bloodshed after a panel of doctors certified Bourguiba mentally unfit to govern — a diagnosis widely understood as politically arranged. Ben Ali subsequently rebranded the event as a "Change," and the annual commemorative series running from the late 1980s onward dutifully followed suit in official nomenclature, making the survival of the word "coup d'état" in catalog references something of an irony.
The French-legend variant exists alongside an Arabic-legend counterpart, issued for the collector export market.