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5 Dinars
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de Tunisie |
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| Year | 1973 |
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| Value | 5 Dinars (دينار) (5 TND) |
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| Obverse lettering | البنك المركزي التونسي خمسة دنانير (Translation: Central Bank of Tunisia Five Dinars) |
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| Protection description | Portrait watermark of Habib Bourguiba |
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Tunisia's 1973 5 Dinar note was printed by Thomas De La Rue during a period when the Banque Centrale de Tunisie was consolidating its currency design program following independence-era transitional issues. De La Rue had been the dominant supplier to francophone African central banks through the 1960s and into the 1970s, and the Tunisian relationship was a long one — the country had relied on British security printers rather than French houses partly as a deliberate distancing from the colonial printing infrastructure of the Banque de France.
Watermark-only security was already conservative by 1973 standards, at a moment when other regional issuers were beginning to adopt security threads.