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200 Ouguiya
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de Mauritanie |
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| Year | 1973 |
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| Size | 148 x 74 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | البنك المركزي الموريتاني مئتا أوقية للبنك المركزي الموريتاني صلاحية إصدار الأوراق النقدية وفقاً للقانون المنظم له |
| Reverse description | A pastoral desert scene occupies the full width of the reverse, with two resting camels in the right foreground attended by a handler, a sparse acacia tree to the left, thatched huts in the middle distance, and a goat visible at centre. The issuer name BANQUE CENTRALE DE MAURITANIE is inscribed at the top centre in Roman lettering, with the value DEUX CENTS OUGUIYA below it. The denomination 200 appears in the upper left and upper right corners, and an anti-counterfeiting warning legend is printed at the lower left. |
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Mauritania had only established the Banque Centrale de Mauritanie in 1973, following its withdrawal from the West African Monetary Union and the introduction of the ouguiya to replace the CFA franc — a currency reform that gave the country independent monetary control for the first time since independence in 1960. This note belongs to the inaugural series, meaning it entered circulation at the precise moment the new currency did.
Banque de France intaglio work on early post-colonial African issues is typically clean, and this series is no exception. The single watermark security feature reflects what was standard practice for a newly established central bank operating on a constrained setup budget.