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50 Dinars Coup d'état 21st Anniversary
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de Tunisie |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Composition | Gold (.900) |
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| Obverse description | Central design within a beaded inner circle depicts a stylized landscape featuring three wind turbines at left and a solar panel array at right, beneath a radiant sun rising above rolling terrain, evoking themes of renewable energy and national development. Decorative arabesque ornaments flank the inner circle at the three and nine o'clock positions. The Arabic legend الجمهورية التونسية (The Tunisian Republic) arcs along the upper periphery. The date in Arabic numerals appears along the lower border. |
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| Reverse lettering | الذكرى الواحدة و العشرون للسابع من نوفمبر 2008 سنة الحوار مع الشباب 1429 |
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The "coup d'état" in the coin's official name refers to Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's bloodless removal of Habib Bourguiba on November 7, 1987 — an event the Tunisian state subsequently rebranded as a "medical coup," justified by a panel of doctors who declared the 84-year-old Bourguiba mentally unfit to govern. Ben Ali then institutionalized November 7 as a national holiday and anchored an entire commemorative coinage program around successive anniversaries of his own seizure of power.
By 2008, the regime was already showing the rigidity that would accelerate its collapse three years later.