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100 millimes Essai uniface avers sans mot essai
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de Tunisie |
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| Year | 1960 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse description | Central circle enclosing the Arabic inscription of the issuing authority, 'البنك المركزي التونسي' (Banque Centrale de Tunisie), flanked by the dual dating '1960' in Western numerals and '1380' in the Islamic calendar. The central device is framed by a fine decorative border of stylized foliate or geometric motifs radiating into the field. This is a uniface essai strike, produced on a highly polished planchet yielding proof-like, high-gloss surfaces. The reverse is blank, as this piece was struck as part of a set of seven paired uniface specimen pieces. |
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| Mintage | 1960 |
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The Banque Centrale de Tunisie was established in 1958, two years after independence, replacing the colonial-era Institut d'Émission. The 1960 coinage program was among its first acts of monetary assertion, and trial strikes — particularly uniface obverse essais without the "ESSAI" inscription — were produced to test and approve designs before full production authorization. A piece lacking the essai counterstamp suggests it belongs to an earlier stage of the approval sequence, possibly a pre-submission strike reviewed internally before the formal trial designation was applied.