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10 Dinars Houari Boumediene
| Issuer | Banque d'Algérie |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | At center, a large stylized numeral '10' occupies the field. The Arabic legend 'بنك الجزائر' (Bank of Algeria) curves along the upper periphery, while the denomination 'دنانير فضية' (Silver Dinars) is inscribed along the lower periphery. The Gregorian date 1994 appears to the left and the Hijri date 1415 to the right of the central numeral. |
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| Reverse description | A bold, high-relief bust of Houari Boumediene, former President of Algeria, faces slightly left, rendered in a naturalistic portrait style with detailed hair and facial features. His name in Arabic script appears divided to either side of the bust, 'هواري' to the upper right and 'بومدين' to the upper left. To the left of the portrait, his Gregorian birth and death years '1932' and '1978' are inscribed vertically, accompanied by the Arabic abbreviation 'م' (Miladi). To the right, the corresponding Hijri years '1351' and '1399' appear vertically, followed by the abbreviation 'هـ' (Hijri). The field is otherwise plain, lending prominence to the effigy. |
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Houari Boumediene died in December 1978 after a long illness later identified as Waldenström's macroglobulinemia, a rare blood disorder — his government concealed the severity of his condition from the Algerian public for months. This commemorative was struck sixteen years after his death, during a period of acute political crisis: Algeria was deep into its civil war, the state of emergency declared in 1992 still in force, and the government under active pressure to invoke nationalist legitimacy. Boumediene, architect of the 1971 oil nationalization, was a reliable ideological anchor.
The .835 silver specification aligns with Algerian commemorative practice of the early 1990s rather than any circulating coinage standard.