| Descripción del anverso |
Central vignette bears a portrait of Joseph Maurice Paturau CBE, DFK, GOSK (1916–1996), with the Mauritius Coat of Arms at lower left and a vignette of the old Bank of Mauritius facade rendered as an underprint. A figure of blindfolded Lady Justice holding a balance and sword appears within the guilloche background. |
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| Descripción del reverso |
At left, a transparent polymer window in an ornate cartouche shape contains a dodo bird head vignette with optically variable denomination numerals '50' and 'RS 50' reading both upright and inverted. The central and right portions present an aerial intaglio-style vignette of the Le Caudan Waterfront complex in Port Louis, with its distinctive rotunda pavilion, palm-lined esplanade, and surrounding commercial buildings rendered in blue tones, with denomination numerals 'Rs50' and '50' at upper right and lower right respectively. |
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Mauritius adopted polymer for this denomination as part of a broader regional shift toward substrate durability in small island economies, where humidity and handling conditions degrade cotton paper far faster than in temperate climates. Oberthur Fiduciaire's involvement is notable — the French security printer has a long relationship with Francophone and Indian Ocean issuers, and the transparent window placement on this series reflects their in-house polymer technology rather than the De La Rue or Note Printing Australia approaches used elsewhere.
P#65 spans an unusually long print window for a polymer issue, suggesting the design was not replaced mid-series despite Mauritius updating other denominations during the same period.