Description and research notes
Official pre-issue specimen for the first republican 10 Dinars, with red SPECIMEN overprint and 000000 controls. Specimens were circulated to ministries, bank branches, and correspondents to standardize cash-handling and check the pressroom’s final plate state before the production run.
This example sits at the point where the engraver’s portrait, guilloche network, and underprint palette were frozen for circulation. PMG 58 EPQ and recorded as the only graded specimen for Pick 37s, it documents the national pivot in design language—from dynastic portraiture to an anti-colonial icon—using the same security grammar of deep-bite intaglio and multi-stone underprint.