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500 Meticais
| Issuer | Banco de Moçambique |
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| Year | 2006 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of three Cape buffalo rendered in intaglio against a background of tropical foliage, with multicoloured guilloche underprint throughout. The bank title BANCO DE MOÇAMBIQUE appears at upper centre, the denomination legend QUINHENTOS METICAIS at lower right, and large numeral counters 500 at upper left and lower right corners. A latent-image numeral 500 is visible at lower left, and the anti-counterfeiting legend A FALSIFICAÇÃO DA MOEDA É PUNIDA NOS TERMOS DA LEI runs along the bottom margin. |
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| Protection description | Samora Machel portrait watermark; embedded security thread |
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Giesecke & Devrient printed this note during a period of genuine monetary stabilization for Mozambique — the country had slashed three zeros from the metical in 2006, replacing the old 1,000 Meticais note with this 500 in a redenominated currency meant to signal distance from the hyperinflationary pressures of the 1980s and early 1990s. The new metical (MTn) was pegged informally against the dollar in public psychology, if not in policy.
G&D's Munich facility was the sole printer for the inaugural MTn series. Security provision is modest by contemporary standards — thread and watermark only, with no optically variable ink.