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Tunisian duro

coin

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ7853198 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Tunisian duro is the nickname of the small silver coin that is part of the Tunisian currency. It has originated from the Spanish word Duro (monetary unit), a nickname for the five peseta coin.

The value of the coin is five millimes or 0.005 of a Tunisian dinar, and is the smallest denomination currently being minted (smaller 1 and 2 millime coins are no longer issued).

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“Tunisian duro” enters the record as coin. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tunisian, duro and coin can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 67-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Tunisian, duro and coin.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7853198. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tunisian duro” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.