Catalog
1000 Ouguiya
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de Mauritanie |
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| Year | 1973 |
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| Printer | Banque de France, Paris |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette shows a seated weaver at a loom on the left and a craftsman at work on the right, rendered in a multicolour intaglio style. The Arabic inscription of the bank name runs along the top, with the denomination numeral '1000' at upper left and upper right. A small industrial structure vignette appears at the far right, and the date '20-6-1973' is printed in the lower centre field. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Mauritania's first post-independence central bank notes were introduced following the creation of the Banque Centrale de Mauritanie in 1973, when the country finally severed its monetary ties with the West African CFA franc zone — a break that had been politically contentious since independence in 1960. The ouguiya, subdivided into five khoums, replaced the CFA franc at a rate of 1 ouguiya to 5 CFA francs, an unusual quinquepartite subdivision found almost nowhere else in modern currency.
Production by the Banque de France printing works in Paris was common for Francophone African states of this period, though Mauritania's relationship with France was already strained by the time these notes entered circulation.