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10 Dinars
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de Tunisie |
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| Year | 2020 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait vignette of Dr. Tawhida Ben Cheikh (1909–2010), the first Arab female physician, rendered in blue-grey tones at centre-right, with her name and dates inscribed below in both Arabic and Latin script. The left panel carries an elaborate interlaced Celtic-style guilloche pattern in teal and white, alongside an optically variable ink numeral "10" in green within a floral wreath. Two authorising signatures appear at lower right, with the date 2020-3-20 at lower centre. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette in intaglio presents a group of traditional Amazigh (Berber) ceramic vessels — a large decorated jug, a wide flat dish, and a smaller urn — set against a circular guilloche underprint in blue-green. To the right, an engraved jewellery box with Berber geometric ornamentation completes the cultural tableau. The issuer's name in French curves across the upper portion in dark blue letterpress, with the denomination repeated in numeral and word form at upper left and lower left respectively. |
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Tunisia's central bank has contracted foreign printers for its higher denominations throughout the modern series, and this note continues that arrangement with Crane Currency in Massachusetts — a firm better known in numismatic circles for supplying substrate to the U.S. Federal Reserve than for printing finished foreign currency, though Crane's Security Products division handles both.
P#99 is among the more recent additions to the catalog. Thin on controversy, thin on crisis history — it entered circulation as a routine replacement issue within an established series.