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1 Dinar
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de Tunisie |
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| Year | 1958 |
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| Printer | Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, United Kingdom (1856-1990) |
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| Obverse description | Green intaglio-printed note with a three-quarter-facing portrait vignette of President Habib Bourguiba at left, set against a fine guilloche underprint. The Arabic bank title البنك المركزي التونسي is inscribed in an ornate panel at top centre, with the denomination دينار واحد in large Arabic script at centre; a small vignette of a farmer ploughing with oxen appears at lower right, flanked by a decorative rosette. A guilloche border frames the entire face. |
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| Reverse description | Green intaglio-printed reverse dominated by a large aerial vignette of the Mellègue Dam rendered in fine line engraving, with its stepped concrete face and surrounding landscape occupying the central field. The legend BANQUE CENTRALE DE TUNISIE is inscribed in two lines at upper centre above the dam scene, with the denomination UN DINAR in a rectangular panel at bottom centre. A blank oval watermark space is reserved in the left field, and guilloche borders with numeral 1 corner pieces frame the entire design. |
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Tunisia's first independent central bank notes, this series was issued in 1958, just two years after independence from France. The Banque Centrale de Tunisie had been established only in 1958 itself, replacing the note-issuing functions previously held by the Banque de l'Algérie et de la Tunisie — a colonial institution whose name alone signals who it had been designed to serve.
Bradbury Wilkinson's involvement was typical of newly independent states in this period; the New Malden firm printed currency for dozens of emerging nations that lacked domestic facilities. The watermark remains the sole mechanical security feature, modest by any measure.