Catalog
2000 Rupees
| Issuer | Bank of Mauritius |
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| Year | 1998 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam at left, the national arms at lower left, and a central vignette of a government building flanked by a figure of Justice with scales at lower right. The note bears intaglio-printed inscriptions with guilloche underprint patterns throughout. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANK OF MAURITIUS Rs 2000 ₹२००० |
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The 2000 rupee denomination was introduced in 1998 as the highest face value in the Mauritian series at that time — a practical response to inflation-driven demand for high-denomination notes in a tourism and offshore banking economy where large cash transactions were routine. Thomas De La Rue's involvement with Mauritian currency dates back decades, and the P#48 series reflects their late-1990s production standards, including the watermark security but not yet the more sophisticated polymer or holographic features that would appear in later Mauritian issues.
The Maraye/Gujadhur signature pairing places this squarely within a specific administrative window at the Bank of Mauritius.