The Creator of Algerian Statehood - Abdelkader.

So here we have the Algerian dinar, nominal – 1/2. The year of issue of this coin is 1992. Mint: The Central Bank of Algeria, Algiers.

Abdelkader born September 6 in 1808, Guetna, near Mascara, Algeria — died May 26 in 1883, Damascus, Syria, amīr of Mascara (from 1832). The military and religious leader who founded the Algerian state and led the Algerians in their 19th-century struggle against French domination.

In 1838 Abdelkader had organized a true state, the capital of which was sometimes Mascara and sometimes the fortress of Tiaret (now Tagdempt). He established juridical equality among population groups by suppressing the privileges of the warlike tribes (makhzen) and by imposing equal taxes on all his subjects. First he extended his influence to the Sahara by fighting al-Tijīnī, who dominated the southern oases, and rallying the desert peoples to him.

Then he strengthened his authority in the valley of the Chelif and in the Titteri as far as the borders of the province of the east, where he was resisted by the bey of Constantine, Hajj Ahmed. He also exacted harsh punishment of the Koulouglis of Zouatna, who had joined the French. By the winter of 1838, his authority extended across the borders of Kabylie and, in the south, from the oasis of Biskra to the Moroccan border. To destroy the power of al-Tijīnī, he besieged his capital, Aïn Mahdi, for six months and demolished it, while all the Saharan tribes paid him homage.