Algeria P148 2000 Dinars 2022 UNC—Commemorative League of Arab States Session

A monument to independence, a monumental mosque, and a natural stone arch in the Sahara: Algeria’s 2022 2000-dinar commemorative brings national memory, modern architecture, and desert scenery together on an unusual DuraSafe hybrid substrate. Issued on November 2, 2022, it marks the 31st Arab League summit in Algiers, putting the host country’s landmarks alongside a map of the Arab world.

Front

• Monument: The Martyrs’ Memorial in Algiers, also known as Maqam Echahid or the Sanctuaire des Martyrs.
• Map: The Arab world, linking the design to the summit.
• Flag: Algeria’s national flag.
• Inscriptions: “BANK OF ALGERIA” and “TWO THOUSAND DINARS,” with Arabic and Latin-script lettering.

Back

• Natural landmark: A stone arch in Tassili n’Ajjer National Park.
• Architecture: The Grand Mosque of Algiers, Djamaa el Djazaïr.
• Landscape: Saharan rock formations.
• Inscriptions: “BANK OF ALGERIA” and “TWO THOUSAND DINARS,” with Arabic and Latin-script lettering.

Other Characteristics

• Catalog numbers: Pick P148, listed as P-W148 in the supplied catalog entry; TBB B413; Numista N#349608.
• Watermark: Emir Abdelkader and an electrotype 2000.
• Composition: Hybrid substrate, DuraSafe; not an all-polymer banknote.
• Size: 158 × 72 mm.
• Issuing entity: Bank of Algeria.
• Signatures: Gov. Salah Eddine Taleb; General Director of Public Treasury Belkacem Delindi.
• Currency: Algerian dinar, introduced in 1964.
• Issue date: November 2, 2022.
• Security feature: Kurz thread with Kinegram Color.
• Commemoration: The 31st session of the League of Arab States in Algiers.
• Condition: UNC (Uncirculated).

A summit on money you could spend

The 31st Arab League summit was held in Algiers on November 1–2, 2022. This is a circulating commemorative, not simply a souvenir certificate: a regional diplomatic event became part of the imagery of everyday currency.

The Arab League was founded in 1945, and Algeria joined in 1962, the year of its independence. The map on the front expresses the summit’s regional scope, while the monuments and landscape establish the identity of its host.

Independence remembered, a skyline transformed

The Martyrs’ Memorial commemorates those who died in Algeria’s struggle for independence. Its towering, curved forms make it one of Algiers’s most recognizable landmarks. Placing it on the front anchors the note in the history of the modern state.

The reverse presents a different kind of monument: the Grand Mosque of Algiers, with its exceptionally tall minaret. Beside it, the natural stone arch and rock formations of Tassili n’Ajjer provide a striking contrast between human construction and landscapes shaped over geological time.

The leader hidden in the watermark

Hold the note to the light and the watermark introduces Emir Abdelkader, the nineteenth-century leader of resistance to French conquest. Remembered as a military leader, scholar, and religious figure, he adds a historical portrait to a design otherwise centered on monuments, geography, and diplomacy.

For a collector, the interest extends to the material itself: DuraSafe is a hybrid substrate rather than ordinary paper or an all-polymer sheet. Together with the watermark and Kinegram Color security thread, it gives this commemorative a technological story as well as a visual one.

About Algeria

• Origin of name: Algeria takes its name from Algiers. Arabic al-Jazā’ir means “the islands,” referring to islands historically associated with the capital’s harbor.
• Capital: Algiers, roughly 3 million residents across the wider urban area; totals vary with administrative and metropolitan boundaries.
  • Origin of the capital’s name: From Arabic al-Jazā’ir, “the islands.”
• Population: Approximately 47 million (UN 2024 estimate), comparable to California and Washington combined.
• Area: Approximately 2,381,741 km² (919,595 mi²), around three and a half times Texas or roughly four times metropolitan France.
• Economy: Oil and natural gas are central to export earnings and public finances.
• Main exports: Oil, natural gas, and petroleum products.
• Borders: Tunisia, Libya, Niger, Mali, Mauritania, Western Sahara, and Morocco; Mediterranean coastline to the north.
• Official/spoken languages: Arabic and Tamazight are official; Algerian Arabic and Amazigh languages are widely spoken, with French important in many professional and educational settings.
• Ethnicities: Arab and Amazigh (Berber) identities overlap; simple labels do not capture the country’s linguistic and cultural diversity.
• Memberships: United Nations, joined 1962; Arab League, joined 1962; Organization of African Unity, founding member in 1963, succeeded by the African Union; OPEC, joined 1969;
• Sovereignty: Ancient Numidian kingdoms were followed by Roman and later regional powers; Ottoman-era Regency of Algiers; French conquest began in 1830; independence followed the 1954–1962 war; independent People’s Democratic Republic since 1962.

Algeria Unfiltered

• Energy wealth brings exposure: Dependence on oil and gas earnings makes global energy-price changes consequential for the economy.
• Africa’s largest country: Algeria became the continent’s largest country by area after South Sudan’s independence in 2011.
• The Black Decade: The violence of the 1990s, following the interruption of the electoral process, left a deep mark on society.
• A desert archive: Tassili n’Ajjer’s rock art records past environments and human life; the area became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1982.
• Amazigh recognition: Tamazight gained official-language status in 2016.
• Mass peaceful protest: The Hirak movement began in 2019 and helped bring an end to Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s presidency.

Own this 2022 Algerian 2000-dinar commemorative in Uncirculated condition: a summit, a memorial, a grand mosque, and a Saharan arch, united on a hybrid-substrate banknote with a hidden historical portrait.