Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
200 Meticais
| Issuer | Banco de Moçambique |
|---|---|
| Year | 2006 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of Samora Moíses Machel, first President of Mozambique, set within an oval vignette at centre-left, with a colour-shifting optical device bearing repeated denomination numerals at lower left. The bank's circular medallion appears to the right of centre, flanked by fine guilloche underprint in teal and blue tones. Date '16 DE JUNHO DE 2006' and the Governor's signature appear to the right, with the denomination 'DUZENTOS METICAIS' in bold letterpress at far right. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Samora Machel portrait visible when held to light; embedded security thread with bank name; colour-shifting optical variable device with repeated denomination numerals at lower left |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
The 2006 series represented Banco de Moçambique's most substantial security upgrade since independence-era notes gave way to post-civil-war issues in the 1990s. Thomas De La Rue's involvement brought the OVD strip — still relatively uncommon on sub-Saharan African notes at that point — into Mozambican circulation for the first time at this denomination level.
The 200 Meticais sits in the upper tier of the metical series introduced to replace the old currency at a 1,000:1 ratio in 2006, a redenomination driven by decades of accumulated inflation dating back to the destabilization conflicts of the 1980s.