Catalog
200 Rupees
| Issuer | Bank of Mauritius |
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| Year | 2004-2007 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Sir Abdool Razack Mohamed (1906–1978) in intaglio at left centre, set against a multicolour guilloche underprint in green and violet tones. The denomination 'TWO HUNDRED RUPEES' is inscribed at right in English, Creole, Hindi, and Tamil, with the 'BANK OF MAURITIUS' legend across the top and 'Rs200' at upper right. The national coat of arms appears at lower left, with two facsimile signatures of the Governor and Managing Director below the denomination panel, and a vignette of the Scales of Justice at lower right. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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The signature pairing of R. Basant Roi as Governor with B.R. Gujadhur places this note firmly within a period when the Bank of Mauritius was navigating significant reform pressure — Basant Roi's first governorship ran from 1998 to 2007 and coincided with substantial modernisation of the island's monetary framework following IMF consultations in the early 2000s.
De La Rue's production of this series is unremarkable by their standards, but the 200 rupee denomination itself is worth noting: it sits between the 100 and 500 rupee notes in a denomination structure that Mauritius has periodically adjusted to match real transaction values against persistent inflation.