500 Meticais

Mozambique's 1991 series was issued well into the post-independence hyperinflationary period that had gutted confidence in the metical since its introduction in 1980. The 500 metical denomination, while unremarkable by face value at the time of issue, was part of a broader printing relationship with Thomas De La Rue that Maputo relied upon heavily through the 1980s and into the 1990s, lacking domestic facilities for secure currency production.

P#134 carries only a watermark as its security provision — thin protection by De La Rue's own standards of the period, reflecting budgetary constraints rather than any technical limitation of the printer.