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50 Centimes Sétif Massacre
| Issuer | Banque Centrale d'Algérie |
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| Year | 1975 |
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| Value | 50 Centimes (0.50 DZD) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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The 1975 date places this coin a full thirty years after the Sétif and Guelma massacres of May 8, 1945, when French security forces and settler militias killed somewhere between 6,000 and 45,000 Algerians — a range that itself reflects how thoroughly the event was suppressed in French official memory. Algeria had been commemorating the date as a national holiday since independence in 1962, and the coin fits within the broader effort of the Boumédiène government to anchor the new state's identity to its anticolonial martyrology.