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50 Dinars 1987 Coup d'état 19th Anniversary, Arabic legend
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de Tunisie |
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| Year | 2006 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The Tunisian coat of arms is depicted centrally, featuring a shield supported by olive branches on either side and surmounted by a crescent and star emblem at the apex. The Arabic legend of the Republic's name encircles the upper field, while the denomination '50' and the Arabic word for dinars appear in the lower field. The design is framed by a beaded or ornamental inner border, with the overall composition rendered in a clean, official heraldic style. |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Tunisia's "Coup d'état" commemoratives occupy an awkward position in modern numismatic history. The November 7, 1987 removal of Habib Bourguiba by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was presented domestically as a bloodless "medical coup" — doctors certified Bourguiba senile — and Ben Ali subsequently institutionalized its anniversary as a national holiday called "Change Day." Annual commemorative issues followed, this being the nineteenth-anniversary edition struck well into Ben Ali's increasingly authoritarian consolidation of power.
The series ran until the 2011 revolution that ousted Ben Ali himself, leaving these coins as documents of a celebration that ultimately outlived its own political legitimacy.