2000 Rupees

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.