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5 Dinars

Issuer Banque Centrale de Tunisie
Year 1973
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Currency Dinar (1958-date)
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Obverse lettering البنك المركزي التونسي خمسة دنانير
(Translation: Central Bank of Tunisia Five Dinars)
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Reverse lettering BANQUE CENTRALE DE TUNISIE
CINQ DINARS
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Tunisia's 1973 5 Dinar note was printed by Thomas De La Rue during a period when the Banque Centrale de Tunisie was consolidating its currency design program following independence-era transitional issues. De La Rue had been the dominant supplier to francophone African central banks through the 1960s and into the 1970s, and the Tunisian relationship was a long one — the country had relied on British security printers rather than French houses partly as a deliberate distancing from the colonial printing infrastructure of the Banque de France.

Watermark-only security was already conservative by 1973 standards, at a moment when other regional issuers were beginning to adopt security threads.

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