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50 Dinars 1995 Coup d'état 8th Anniversary
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de Tunisie |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Currency | Dinar (1958-date) |
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| Reverse script | Arabic, Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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This piece commemorates the eighth anniversary of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's seizure of power on November 7, 1987, when he removed the aging and increasingly erratic Habib Bourguiba — Tunisia's founding president — through a medical coup, presenting certificates signed by physicians declaring Bourguiba mentally unfit to govern. Ben Ali's government subsequently rebranded the date as a national holiday, "Change Day," and issued commemorative coinage annually to legitimize the new order. The 1995 striking falls midway through what would prove a 23-year authoritarian tenure, ending only with the 2011 revolution that helped ignite the Arab Spring.