Catalog
1000 Ouguiya
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de Mauritanie |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Printer | Giesecke+Devrient (Giesecke & Devrient), Leipzig, Germany (1852-date) |
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| Obverse description | The right-centre of the note is occupied by an intaglio vignette of the ancient minaret of the Chinguetti Mosque rendered in brown tones against a sandy-coloured guilloche underprint, with a low building at its base evoking the desert setting. The Mauritanian coat of arms appears at upper right, and the bank's name in Arabic script — البنك المركزي الموريتاني — is set across the top alongside a transparent polymer window at the left margin bearing an open-book motif framed by geometric lacework. Two facsimile signatures appear at centre-left below the large Arabic numeral denomination, and the date 28.11.2017 is printed below the bank title. |
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| Obverse lettering | البنك المركزي الموريتاني ١٠٠٠ ألف أوقية (Translation: Central Bank of Mauritania, 1000 One Thousand Ouguiya) |
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Mauritania's shift to polymer for this denomination was part of a broader regional move toward substrate durability in hot, arid climates where cotton-linen notes degrade rapidly. G&D's Leipzig facility handled the print run — the same plant responsible for polymer currency production for several West African issuers during this period.
The transparent window element integrated into the polymer substrate is not a separately applied feature but part of the base film itself, a distinction that matters when assessing authenticity. P#26 is the first polymer 1000 Ouguiya in the Mauritanian series.