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200 Rupees
| Issuer | Bank of Mauritius |
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| Year | 2024 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | At left, a vignette of the late Minister Abdool Razack Mohamed; at centre, the coat of arms of Mauritius above a bank building façade; to the right, a standing allegorical figure of Justice holding a sword and scales, with a dodo bird head vignette below. Multilingual inscriptions in English, Hindi, and Tamil frame the design, with a red-to-green colour-shifting Swing security element in the form of a stylised dodo egg at lower right. |
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| Protection description | Red-to-green colour-shifting Swing security element in the form of a stylised dodo egg on the obverse; the polymer substrate itself provides an inherent transparent window as an additional security feature. |
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Mauritius shifted its higher-denomination notes to polymer gradually, and this 200 Rupee issue is part of that ongoing transition rather than a clean relaunch. De La Rue has printed Mauritian currency for decades, so the relationship here is long-established rather than a new contract.
Polymer notes in tropical island economies tend to outlast their paper equivalents significantly in circulation — humidity and frequent handling in cash-heavy retail and tourism sectors accelerate deterioration of cotton-linen substrates, which is the practical argument behind the switch.