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50 Dinars
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de Tunisie |
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| Year | 2011 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents an intaglio portrait of Ibn Rachiq al-Qayrawani (1000–1071), the celebrated Andalusian-Tunisian poet and literary critic, rendered in fine engraved line work against a multicolour guilloche underprint in green, blue, and orange. To the left, a vignette of the Musée de la Monnaie (Money Museum) building is set within layered guilloche rosettes, accompanied by a palm tree motif. The denomination numeral '50' appears in large green letterpress at upper left, with the bank title in Arabic script across the top and the date '2011-3-20' at lower left; two signature lines with Arabic titles appear at right. |
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| Reverse lettering | Banque Centrale de Tunisie 50 CINQUANTE DINARS PLACE DU GOUVERNEMENT LA KASBAH - ساحة حكومة القصبة دينارًا |
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Tunisia's 2011 50-dinar note arrived in a politically charged moment — the Ben Ali government had fallen in January of that year, and the Banque Centrale was operating under a transitional administration when this series entered circulation. Whether the design had been finalized under the old regime or rushed through under the interim government is not publicly documented, but the timing is hard to ignore.
Oberthur Fiduciaire's Chantepie facility has handled Tunisian currency production across multiple series, making this a long-standing commercial relationship rather than an emergency contract.