Tunisia AH 1376/1957 50 francs

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from the Ma’adi Collection
from the Ma’adi Collection

This type was struck 1950 and 1957 in the name of Bey Muhammed Al Amin. French control of Tunisia, never firm, collapsed after World War Two and the French withdrew in 1956. This issue is dated after independence but coinage for Habib Bourgiba's republic did not commence until 1960. It is accompanied by copper-nickel five, ten, fifty and hundred francs.

Recorded mintage: 600,000.

Specification: copper-nickel.

Catalog reference: KM 275.

Source:

  • Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.

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