Catalog
200 Ouguiya
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de Mauritanie |
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| Year | 2004-2006 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by geometric and ornamental Islamic-inspired designs in brown, gold, and blue tones, with a large intricate guilloche rosette vignette at right enclosed within a square frame of interlocking arabesque borders. The upper and lower registers carry dark brown bands with repeated diamond and cross motifs of traditional Mauritanian craft origin. A pale circular watermark zone occupies the left-center field, with two Arabic-script signature panels at lower left and the date printed below the serial number at upper left. |
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| Protection description | the Mauritanian crescent and star device visible in the blank oval field at left center; embedded security thread running vertically through the note. |
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Mauritania's ouguiya is one of the few currencies not based on a decimal system — it divides into 5 khoums, a unit retained from pre-colonial practice that has no practical use in modern commerce but persists on the notes regardless. The 2004–2006 series of which this note is part was a transitional issue, appearing between the earlier Banque Centrale designs and the polymer-format rethink that followed in subsequent years.
G&D's Leipzig facility handled the print run. Security provision is modest: a windowed thread and watermark, without the optically variable elements that appeared on later Mauritanian issues.