Catalog
1000 Rupees
| Issuer | Bank of Mauritius |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Currency | Rupee (1835-date) |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Sir Veerasamy Ringadoo at left within a multicolour guilloche border, with a central vignette of a colonial government building flanked by palm trees. The denomination appears in the lower left in both Western and Tamil numerals, with the serial number printed vertically at left and horizontally at upper right. Two facsimile signatures appear at the bottom, attributed to the Governor and Managing Director of the Bank of Mauritius. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANK OF MAURITIUS |
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The Bank of Mauritius turned to Thomas De La Rue for virtually its entire post-independence note production, and this 1000-rupee denomination was among the highest values in circulation during a period when the island's economy was accelerating sharply on the back of export processing zones and a booming textile sector. At that level, the note functioned primarily as a commercial instrument rather than everyday tender.
I. Ramphul served as Governor while R. Tacouri signed as Managing Director — a pairing that places this note within a specific and relatively brief window of the bank's administrative history. Pick 41 is not a particularly rare issue, but the signature combination matters for precise attribution within the series.