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1/2 Dinar
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de Tunisie |
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| Year | 1972 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of President Habib Bourguiba at right, facing three-quarters left, against a fine guilloche underprint in rose and brown tones. At left, a small vignette of a coastal landscape with port facilities; the denomination numeral '1/2' appears at lower left and lower right. Arabic inscriptions in the upper panel identify the issuing bank, with the date 3-8-1972 and two signature lines for the Governor and Director General below the central text. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Thomas De La Rue printed the entire 1972 Tunisian series during a period when the Banque Centrale was consolidating its note designs after a decade of post-independence currency adjustments. The half-dinar denomination was largely a workhorse note — produced for everyday transactional use at a time when the dinar's purchasing power still made fractional denominations genuinely useful.
The watermark is the sole mechanical security feature, placing it firmly in the lower tier of De La Rue's security specifications for this contract.