10 Dinars Houari Boumediene

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.