Catalog
100 Ouguiya
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de Mauritanie |
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| Year | 2011-2015 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The face is rendered in a predominantly purple and ochre colour scheme, with intaglio geometric and interlaced borders of traditional Mauritanian ornamental motifs running along the upper and lower margins. At centre-right, a large Moorish medallion vignette executed in fine intaglio is set over a guilloche underprint field, while two signature lines with Arabic title inscriptions appear at lower left alongside a circular watermark window at left-centre. The Arabic denomination مائة أوقية is set in bold lettering across the lower portion of the face, with the bank name in Arabic along the upper margin. |
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| Variants | P#16a - 28.11.2011 P#16b - 28.11.2015 |
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Mauritania abandoned the CFA franc and introduced the ouguiya in 1973, one of the more deliberate acts of post-independence monetary policy in West Africa — the currency was divided into 5 khoums rather than the decimal 100 subunits used almost everywhere else, a structure rooted in traditional Islamic reckoning. Giesecke & Devrient, who printed this series from Leipzig, have supplied Mauritanian notes across multiple decades and design generations.
P#16 runs across a wide date span for a single pick number, suggesting relatively modest design revision between issues. The security specification is lean for the period — watermark and thread only, without the optical variable elements that G&D were fitting to comparable African issues by the early 2010s.