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50 Meticais
| Issuer | Banco de Moçambique |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Size | 144 × 65 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central intaglio-printed oval vignette of Samora Moisés Machel, first President of Mozambique, facing slightly left, set against fine guilloche underprint in olive-green and ochre tones. The Bank of Mozambique circular seal appears to the right of the portrait, with the date 16 DE JUNHO DE 2006 and the Governor's signature below it. The denomination 50 appears in large numerals at lower right, with the legend CINQUENTA METICAIS in bold letterpress, and the issuer's name BANCO DE MOÇAMBIQUE across the top. |
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| Reverse description | A central intaglio vignette occupies most of the face, presenting a group of three kudus moving through a shrubby savanna landscape with bare-branched trees in the background. The denomination 50 appears in large numerals at lower left, with CINQUENTA METICAIS in bold letterpress to the right, and BANCO DE MOÇAMBIQUE across the top. A multicolour geometric decorative band runs along the left margin, and a latent-image numeral 50 appears at upper right within a fine guilloche rosette. |
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Giesecke & Devrient had printed Mozambican currency since the early post-independence period, and this 2006 issue continued that relationship. The 50 Meticais denomination was introduced as part of the redenominated metical series — the new metical replaced the old at a rate of 1000:1, a reform enacted in 2006 to clean up the inflationary damage accumulated since the civil war ended in 1992.
The redenomination was purely cosmetic in monetary terms but carried real psychological weight in a country where 100,000-metical notes had become routine grocery-run currency.