Depicts an olive tree within a circle surrounded by oak branches, the inscription in Arabic "Republic of Tunisia" above, date in the Islamic and Gregorian calendars below.

Tunisia is a land of olives, a place where the olive tree over the millennia has become infused with the nation’s culture, economy, cuisine, habits, rhythms, and seasons. Some Tunisians even anoint newborns with olive oil. Tunisia is one of the world’s biggest producers of olive oil . There are about 1.8 million hectares of olive groves with 82 million trees — or about 30 per cent of this North African country’s cultivated land.

Depicts a general view of the Carthage Punic Harbor and the denomination in Arabic letters and western Arabic numeral below, inscription "Central Bank of Tunisia" above.

The Carthage Punic Ports were the old ports of the city of Carthage that were in operation during ancient times. Carthage was first and foremost a thalassocracy, that is, a power that was referred to as an Empire of the Seas, whose primary force was based on the scale of its trade. The Carthaginians, however, were not the only ones to follow that policy of control over the seas, since several of the people in those times "lived by and for the sea".

Carthage or Qart Hadasht (New City) was a product of eastern colonization, having its origin in Dido, the daughter of the king of Tyre. According to her legend recorded in the Aeneid, this Tyrian princess was the founder and first queen of the city in 814 B.C.