Catalog
500 Meticais
| Issuer | Banco de Moçambique |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Value | 500 Meticais |
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| Obverse description | Pink and mauve on multicolour underprint. A portrait vignette of Samora Moisés Machel appears at the right, with the bank logo and a fish used as a see-through registration device. A tree motif and a SPARK optically variable element in purple with sailboat imagery occupy the centre-left, framed by guilloche patterning throughout. |
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| Protection description | Samora Moisés Machel portrait and cornerstones; windowed security thread with demetalized BM 500 text; SPARK optically variable element in purple |
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| Comments |
Mozambique's central bank shifted to polymer for this denomination as part of a broader currency modernization push, following the lead of several other southern African issuers who had already moved away from cotton-based substrate in the previous decade. Polymer notes in the region have shown significantly longer circulation lifespans — roughly two to four times that of paper — a practical consideration for a country where high humidity and heavy daily handling degrade cotton notes quickly.
P#159 is among the more recent additions to the Pick catalogue and secondary market data on survival rates and printing quantities remains thin.