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500 Rupees
| Issuer | Bank of Mauritius |
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| Year | 2010 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears an intaglio vignette of a colonial-era building set amid palm trees, rendered in brown and olive tones over a multicolour guilloche background. The inscription "BANK OF MAURITIUS" runs along the top margin, with the denomination "Rs 500" in large numerals at upper right and along the left margin, supplemented by Tamil and Hindi script renderings in the lower centre. A circular vignette incorporating a stylised world map motif appears at lower left. |
| Reverse lettering | Bank of Mauritius Rs 500 |
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The Bank of Mauritius has relied on Thomas De La Rue for much of its printing history, and this 2010 issue continues that relationship. De La Rue's Castafiore holographic stripe — or a variant of it — appears on notes of this generation, though the specific foil specification for Mauritius issues from this period is not always disclosed in public documentation.
At the 500-rupee level, these notes represent the upper end of everyday transactional currency in Mauritius rather than a high-denomination reserve instrument — meaningful given the island's heavy dependence on tourism revenue and the volume of mid-to-large retail transactions that denomination serves.