Between the two parts is a banner bearing the national motto: "Freedom, Order, Justice (حرية، نظام، عدالة).

On 13 September of the same year, the plaque of the Order of Independence replaced that of National Merit After the abolition of the monarchy on 25 July 1957, the royal coat of arms remained that of the republican regime.

The law of 30 May 1963 significantly modifies the coat of arms by removing the elements of the beylical coat of arms (spears and banners), by reversing the locations of the scales and the lion, by modifying the color of the background (gold) and by changing the order of the national motto: The law of 2 September 1989 reverses the order of the national currency, returning to that of 1956:[2] Following the adoption of the Constitution on 10 February 2014, its article 4 modifies the country's currency.

Consequently, a competition is launched by the Ministry of Culture, for graphic design agencies, to redesign the coat of arms, with a prize of 15,000 dinars for the selected project; a law must ratify the choice.

[3] In January 2015, the government of Béji Caïd Essebsi decided to keep the current coat of arms pending the adoption of a new project.