The first token of Tunisia I ever acquired was a machine token of the Casino Caraibe in city of Sousse. This casino is managed by Casino Resourses Corp. who are listed on New York Stock Exchange. Sousse is very much tourist orientated and the casino and the "casino resort" it forms part of are all very much geared towards the tourist. Tunisian residents are not allowed to make use of the gaming facilties but are allowed to make use of the other facilities available - namely the Las Vegas style entertainment in the 500 seat theatre.

    There are four demominations of tokens known for this casino, they are 0.05, 0.25, 1 and 5 Dinars. The palm tree, casino name and casino location seen on the first side of the token (as above) form the logo of the Casino Caraibe.

    Reminding us of this casino's link with the U.S.A. is a small mint mark on the first side of my token. This is the "GDC" logo of the now closed private U.S. mint GDC Casino Tokens (formerly Green Duck Corp. - hence the intials). This mint closed in June 1999, the Casino Caraibe opened in October 1997. So my token was likely made during this period or in the period approaching the opening date in 1997. A large number of U.S. gaming token types are known with this "GDC" mint mark.

    Casino Djerba is one of the two casinos in Africa within Groupe Partouche - the other is Casino le Mirage in Agadir, Morocco. These two tokens from Casino Djerba include the double-cornucopia mint mark of the French mint.

    Grand Casino d’Hammamet is situated in the Sol Azur, Royal Azur, Bel Azur complex (i.e. in a complex comprising mainly of three separate hotels). The coastal hotel complex is in Hammamet in Tunisia.

This page started with A Casino Token at May 2001.
This page added to with Further Casino Tokens at August 2005.