Catalog
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de Mauritanie |
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| Year | 2017 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Vignette of the Ibn Abbas Mosque in Nouakchott at right, with its distinctive minaret rendered in intaglio against a multicoloured guilloche underprint in purple and gold tones. The national coat of arms appears at upper right within a transparent polymer window, alongside a Quran book motif at left within a second security window element. Two facsimile signatures appear below centre, with the large numeral '50' in ornate intaglio at lower left and lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of traditional Mauritanian musical instruments — including a tidinit lute and a tbal drum — alongside a decorative silver teapot, all rendered in fine intaglio at left of centre against a purple and gold guilloche underprint. The large numeral '50' appears in bold intaglio at centre right, with the transparent polymer security window at far right bearing the open-book motif mirroring the obverse. Geometric and arabesque patterning fills the background across the full width of the note. |
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| Protection type | Polymer substrate, Transparent window, Optically variable ink |
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