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1000 Meticais
| Issuer | República Popular de Moçambique |
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| Year | 1980 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | REPÚBLICA POPULAR DE MOÇAMBIQUE 1000 MIL METICAIS MAPUTO, 16 de JUNHO DE 1980 `número de série` 1000 (Translation: POPULAR REPUBLIC OF MOZAMBIQUE 1000 THOUSAND METICALS MAPUTO, 16 of JUNE OF 1980 `serial number` 1000) |
| Reverse description | Deep red on multicolour underprint. The central vignette presents a composite panorama of industrial and agricultural labour — a mine or quarry cutting with workers at centre-right, heavy machinery at left, and harvesting figures at right — set against a mountainous landscape. The circular Banco de Moçambique seal with the map of Mozambique is superimposed at left of centre, flanked by the large denomination numerals '1000' in ornate cartouches at each corner. |
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Mozambique's first post-independence high-denomination series was contracted to Thomas De La Rue rather than to socialist-bloc printers, a pragmatic choice that reflected the new government's need for security printing expertise it did not yet possess domestically. FRELIMO had taken power in 1975 after the Lusaka Accord, and by 1980 the country was formalizing its currency infrastructure under the República Popular designation adopted in 1975.
De La Rue produced the entire 1980 series. The 1000 Meticais sits at the top of that issue — a denomination large enough that most ordinary Mozambicans would rarely have handled one in daily transactions during a period of severe economic disruption and rural warfare with RENAMO.