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20 Dinars
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de Tunisie |
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| Year | 1983 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of President Habib Bourguiba at left, set against an intricate guilloche underprint in shades of green and blue. The Arabic denomination عشرون دينار appears in large script at centre, with the central bank title in Arabic along the top. A vignette of a modernist building with palm trees occupies the lower centre, and the numeral 20 appears in an ornamental cartouche at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | An aerial vignette of the Carthage marina and harbour basin dominates the centre of the note, rendered in fine intaglio engraving. A classical domed building appears at lower left, set within a multicolour guilloche border. The bank title and denomination legend are inscribed in Latin characters across the upper and lower margins, flanking the numeral 20 at lower right. |
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Thomas De La Rue's relationship with the Banque Centrale de Tunisie stretched across multiple series from independence onward, and this 1983 note falls within a period when Tunisia was managing significant inflationary pressure — the dinar had been under strain through the late 1970s and early 1980s as the government ran persistent deficits partly tied to subsidized consumer goods. The 20-dinar denomination was the highest in circulation at the time of issue, which made De La Rue's security execution here more consequential than on lower values.
Watermark-only security was already considered minimal by 1983 international standards, but Tunisia had not yet adopted the thread-embedded designs that would come with later series.