200 Meticais Inhaca island

Inhaca Island sits at the mouth of Maputo Bay and was the site of one of the earliest Portuguese contact points on the East African coast, with a trading and mission presence dating to the sixteenth century. Today it hosts a marine research station established in the 1950s that has produced decades of coral reef and dugong population data for the western Indian Ocean. The island's inclusion on a circulating coin reflects Mozambique's broader post-2010 numismatic policy of regionalizing its coinage to acknowledge distinct geographic and ecological identities within the country.