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100 Dinars 2002 Coup d'état 15th Anniversary, French legend
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de Tunisie |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Value | 100 Dinars (دينار) |
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| Obverse description | The Tunisian national coat of arms occupies the central field, depicting a quartered shield bearing scales of justice and a rampant lion, surmounted by a dhow under full sail and flanked by decorative scrollwork. Above the shield, the national emblem of a crescent and star is prominently displayed. The legend RÉPUBLIQUE TUNISIENNE arcs along the upper periphery in Latin script, while the denomination 100 DINARS appears in large characters along the lower field, flanked by ornamental devices. |
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| Obverse lettering | RÉPUBLIQUE TUNISIENNE 100 DINARS |
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Tunisia's "Coup d'état" commemorative series marks November 7, 1987, the date Zine El Abidine Ben Ali removed the aging and increasingly erratic Habib Bourguiba from power in a bloodless medical coup — a physician declared Bourguiba mentally unfit to govern, and Ben Ali assumed the presidency without a shot fired. By 2002, Ben Ali had rebranded the event as a national holiday under the sanitized title "Change," suppressing any nomenclature that acknowledged its unconstitutional nature. The French-legend variant was struck alongside an Arabic-legend counterpart, a dual-issue practice standard for Tunisian commemoratives targeting both domestic and export collector markets.