50 Dinars 1998 Coup d'état 11th Anniversary, Arabic legend

Tunisia's "Coup d'état" commemoratives mark the November 7, 1987 removal of Habib Bourguiba by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who had Bourguiba declared medically unfit to govern — a bloodless transfer engineered with enough bureaucratic precision that it was immediately recognized by foreign governments rather than condemned. Ben Ali rebranded the event as a "Change," and annual commemorative issues became a predictable fixture of his administration's self-mythology. By the eleventh anniversary issue, the series was well into its institutional stride.

The Arabic-legend variant was struck alongside a French-legend counterpart in the same year, distinguishing the two for different collector markets.