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50 Ouguiya 50th Anniversary of Ouguiya
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de Mauritanie |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Value | 50 Ouguiya |
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| Obverse description | Vignette of the Central Bank of Mauritania building at centre, flanked by a view of the Ibn Abbas mosque in Nouakchott. The denomination numeral '50' and Arabic legends appear in the underprint, with guilloche patterns framing the central design elements. |
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| Reverse description | A traditional Arabic tea pot rendered in intaglio at left centre, alongside a tidinit lute depicted in warm brown tones at centre; wind turbines form a ghost underprint across the right half of the note, with solar panels visible in the background underprint. The large commemorative '50ème' cipher in blue appears at upper right, integrating Arabic and Latin anniversary inscriptions, with the denomination numeral '50' in green at far left and right. |
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The ouguiya was introduced in 1973 when Mauritania left the West African Monetary Union and severed the franc CFA peg, making the fiftieth anniversary a reasonable occasion for a commemorative issue. Hybrid substrate — a paper-polymer composite — had become a preferred option among several African central banks during the early 2020s, offering improved durability over pure cotton paper without committing to full polymer.
P#28 is a recent addition to the catalog and documentation remains thin. The watermark is, for a commemorative hybrid note, a modest security specification.