2 Millimes Essai uniface avers sans mot essai

Tunisia's 1960 coinage series was issued in the years following independence from France in 1956, as the newly established Banque Centrale de Tunisie worked to build a fully sovereign monetary system. Essai pieces from this program were produced in Paris, where trial strikings — including uniface examples like this — were standard practice for approving designs before committing to full production runs. The absence of the word "ESSAI" on this particular piece distinguishes it from the more commonly encountered marked trials, suggesting it derives from an earlier stage of the approval sequence.