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2000 Meticais Independence

Issuer Banco de Moçambique
Year 1985
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Currency Old metical (1980-2006)
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Reverse script Latin
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Issued to mark the tenth anniversary of Mozambican independence from Portugal, this gold piece appeared the same year the country's civil war between FRELIMO government forces and RENAMO insurgents was consuming the national economy. Banco de Moçambique was producing commemorative gold for export markets while the metical itself was collapsing domestically — the official exchange rate had become functionally fictional by mid-decade.

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