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500 Ouguiya
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de Mauritanie |
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| Year | 2017-2020 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents an intaglio vignette of a deep-sea fishing trawler at centre-left, rendered in dark blue over a layered guilloche background in teal, yellow, and gold. Stylised fish occupy the upper left quadrant as an underprint motif, referencing Mauritania's fishing industry. The transparent polymer window reappears at right within a geometric Islamic arch, and the denomination numeral 500 is printed at lower left and upper right, accompanied by the French-language bank name and the statutory counterfeiting warning in small letterpress text. |
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| Protection type | Polymer window, Optically variable ink, Security thread |
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Mauritania's switch to polymer for this series was driven partly by the extreme climate — the Saharan interior regularly exceeds 45°C, and cotton-paper notes in circulation there deteriorated notoriously fast. G+D's Leipzig facility handled the substrate printing, with the polymer windows integrated into the design rather than added as afterthoughts.
P#25 also coincided with Mauritania's 2018 redenomination, which replaced the Ouguiya at a 10:1 ratio with the new Ouguiya — making this note simultaneously a transitional and a terminal issue within the same series.