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5 Dinars Habib Bourguiba, Decorated Stars, Non-Magnetic
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de Tunisie |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Weight | 10 g |
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| Reverse description | The copper-nickel inner disc features a bare-headed left-facing portrait bust of President Habib Bourguiba in high relief, with his birth and death years '1903-2000' inscribed in the exergue below the effigy and his name in Arabic legend above within the inner disc. The outer nickel brass ring carries the issuer legend 'البنك المركزي التونسي' (Central Bank of Tunisia) along the upper arc, the denomination 'خمسة 5 دنانير' (Five 5 Dinars) along the lower arc, and is decorated with eight equally spaced ornate six-pointed stars. |
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| Mintage | 1423 (2002) - - 20,275,000 |
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Habib Bourguiba, Tunisia's first president, had been removed from power in 1987 — declared medically unfit by Prime Minister Ben Ali in a bloodless coup — and died in 2000, two years before this coin entered circulation. Placing his portrait on currency after his death was a deliberate rehabilitation, part of an ongoing reassessment of his role in Tunisian independence rather than any gesture made during his own rule.
The non-magnetic variant is distinguished from the otherwise identical magnetic issue by its copper-nickel centre composition, reflecting a mid-production specification change at the mint.