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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 |
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| Composition | Gold |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | At centre, a stylised commemorative design featuring an open book surmounted by a classical colonnade building, with the numeral '50' prominently displayed over the book; below, concentric circular bands frame a crescent and star symbol. Two laurel sprigs flank the lower field. The dual dates '1430 - 2009' appear in the lower exergue, and the Arabic commemorative legend curves along the upper border. |
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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.