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20 Centimes
| Issuer | Algeria |
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| Year | 1964 |
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| Value | 20 Centimes (0.20 DZD) |
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| Obverse lettering | الجمهورية الجزائرية الديمقراطية الشعبية (Translation: Democratic People's Republic of Algeria) |
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| Reverse script | Arabic, Latin |
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Algeria's first post-independence coinage series, introduced in 1964, was a deliberate assertion of national currency infrastructure following 132 years of French colonial administration. The franc had been replaced by the Algerian dinar in April 1964, and this 20 centimes piece — a subunit of that new currency — was part of the inaugural issue produced before Algeria established its own mint capacity. Early strikes of the series were produced abroad while the Banque Centrale d'Algérie, founded just two years prior in 1962, consolidated monetary operations.