Obverse: value "½" between texted value, left, currency "دينار" (r.a.n.ī.d ←, dinar), right, value "نصف" (f.s.n ←, , half), mint director's privy mark Cornucopia (Paris Mint, France) and engraver general's privy mark Owl (o, Raymond Joly, 1958-1974). Publisher "البنك المركزي التونسي" (Central Bank of Tunisia), lower-left/right, mirrored spacers, curled decorations, at bottom, Western year "1968"
Reverse: Head 1st President Habib Bourguiba (left, 1957–1987), Prime Minister of Kingdom of Tunisia (1956–1957), designer below truncation "R•COREIN". Subject at top in Arabic) "الحـبـيب بورقيــــبة" (Habib Bourguiba), below, title in Arabic "رئيس الجمهورية التونسية"(President of the Tunisian Republic), type at left "قيبة" and right "ESSAI"
