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100 Dinars 2009 Coup d'état 22nd Anniversary, Arabic legend
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de Tunisie |
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| Year | 2009 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | At centre, the Tunisian coat of arms depicted as a quartered shield: the upper section features a Phoenician galley under sail on stylised waves; the lower-left quarter displays scales of justice; the lower-right quarter shows a rampant lion. Above the shield, the national emblem of a crescent and star. The legend in Arabic script curves along the upper periphery, flanked at lower left and right by ornamental scrollwork. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The "coup d'état" in question is the November 7, 1987 removal of Habib Bourguiba by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who declared the aging founder medically unfit to govern and assumed the presidency without bloodshed. Ben Ali's government institutionalized the date as "Change Day," a national celebration that generated a steady stream of commemorative issues across his 23-year rule. This 2009 gold piece marks the twenty-second such anniversary — two years before Ben Ali himself was ousted in January 2011, the opening act of the Arab Spring, making the entire commemorative series an unintentional monument to a regime that collapsed almost immediately after.