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50 Dinars Revolution
| Issuer | Banque d'Algérie |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Thickness | 2.1 mm |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | The stainless steel centre depicts two Moudjahidine (Algerian freedom fighters) rendered in a stylised, overlapping composition against a diagonally lined background, evoking the national flag; the numeral '1' appears to the lower right of the central motif. The aluminium bronze outer ring carries an Arabic commemorative legend along the upper arc reading 'سلم - علم - عمل' (Peace, Knowledge, Work) and along the left arc 'الذكرى الخمسون لاندلاع الثورة التحريرية' (The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Outbreak of the Liberation Revolution), with the dual dates '1954' and '2004' inscribed at the base of the ring. |
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Issued to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the November 1, 1954 outbreak of the Algerian War of Independence — the date the FLN launched coordinated attacks across the country, triggering an eight-year conflict that killed an estimated 300,000 to over one million Algerians, depending on whose count you accept. France did not formally acknowledge it as a war until 1999.