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1000 Meticais
| Issuer | Banco de Moçambique |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Value | 1000 Meticais |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of a herd of African elephants moving through savanna scrubland with baobab trees in the background, rendered in fine intaglio line work on a light green guilloche ground. Small silhouetted figures of traditional hunters with spears and bows appear along the lower left margin. At right, a vertical security strip carries a map outline of Mozambique above the inscription MIL METICAIS, flanked by geometric rosette ornaments and a feather motif in the far right panel. |
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| Protection description | Colour-shifting elephant numeral element at left of obverse that shifts colour under different viewing angles; embedded vertical security thread at right of centre visible as a stripe; watermark likely incorporated into the paper substrate. |
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| Comments |
Mozambique's 2024 banknote series was introduced against a backdrop of persistent inflationary pressure — the metical had shed significant value through the 2010s and early 2020s, and the 1000-metical denomination, once a high-value note, had become routine in everyday transactions. The redesigned series reflected Banco de Moçambique's push to bring security specifications closer to current BNDES and central bank standards across the region.
Pick 160 is recent enough that secondary market pricing remains unsettled and population data from grading services is essentially nonexistent. Cotton substrate rather than polymer is a notable choice given that several neighboring central banks have moved toward polymer for higher denominations.