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2 Dinars Sharif Abdelkader El Djezairi
| Issuer | Banque d'Algérie |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Value | 2 Dinars |
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| Obverse description | Central field dominated by the large numeral '2' in relief. The Arabic legend 'بنك الجزائر' (Banque d'Algérie) arcs along the upper periphery. The Gregorian year 1996 appears to the lower left of the numeral, with the Hijri year 1417 to the lower right, each accompanied by its respective era marker. The denomination 'ديناران ذهبيان' (Two Gold Dinars) curves along the lower border in Arabic script. |
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| Reverse description | Facing bust of Emir Abdelkader ibn Muhieddine, depicted wearing a traditional keffiyeh and djellaba, rendered in high sculptural relief with fine detail to the beard and facial features. The Arabic legend 'الأمير عبد القادر' (Emir Abdelkader) arcs along the upper periphery. To the lower left, the Gregorian birth and death years 1807 and 1883 are inscribed, while to the lower right, the corresponding Hijri years 1222 and 1300 appear, each group accompanied by its era marker. |
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Abdelkader ibn Muhieddine led the armed resistance against the French conquest of Algeria from 1832 until his surrender in 1847, and spent years afterward in French captivity before eventual exile to Damascus. The 1996 issue commemorating him arrived during one of the most violent periods in modern Algerian history — the civil conflict between the government and Islamist insurgents that killed tens of thousands throughout the decade. That a gold commemorative was produced at all, through the state bank, during that crisis says something about the political weight still carried by Abdelkader's name as a founding symbol of Algerian national resistance.