Currency history
Tunisian franc
- Dates in use
- Introduction and ending not established
- Ancestry branch
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Its place in the family
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This currencyTrace its ancestry backward
Tunisian franc
Tunisian piastre / riyal reckoning
Earlier ancestry is not established here.
The story
Tunisia introduces the dinar. [1]
Turning points
Unit standard adoption
Tunisia replaced its piastre system with the French franc unit in 1891. The Tunisian piastre is a separate local predecessor still to trace. [2]
Changing monetary anchors
French franc — 1795 to euro conversion · 1891 · unit adoption event
French franc unit adopted; no universal cash-conversion ratio asserted. Terms and evidence ↗
Sources and evidence
- Deutsche Bundesbank · Metadata on the Exchange Rate Statistics, 24 September 2025
- Central Bank of Tunisia, Currency Museum · Collections: Protectorate monetary system
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“Tunisian franc.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Updated 2026-10-13; data version v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/FTM000278.html