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50 Dinars 2007 Coup d'état 20th Anniversary, Arabic legend
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de Tunisie |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Weight | 21 g |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali occupying the central field, with his name inscribed in Arabic script immediately above the portrait. A border of twenty six-pointed stars encircles the effigy within an inner ring. The surrounding legend in Arabic reads the commemorative inscription for the twentieth anniversary of the November 7th Change, with the dual date 2007 (Gregorian) and 1428 (Hijri) displayed in the lower exergue, flanking a central star. |
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| Reverse lettering | الجمهورية التونسية |
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The "coup d'état" framing is unusual for a commemorative coin — most governments euphemize. Tunisia did not. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's removal of Habib Bourguiba on November 7, 1987 was officially classified as a medical coup, with a panel of doctors certifying Bourguiba mentally unfit for office rather than the military forcing him out at gunpoint. By 2007, Ben Ali had governed for twenty years on the strength of that legitimacy claim, and this gold issue was part of a broader state apparatus reinforcing it.
Four years after this coin was struck, Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia following the Jasmine Revolution.