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5000 Meticais Wildlife of Africa
| Issuer | Banco de Moçambique |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#125, Schön#71 |
| Obverse description | The national arms of Mozambique depicted in the centre of the field, comprising a shield bearing a book, a hoe, and a Kalashnikov rifle over rising sun rays, supported by decorative foliate wreath tied with ribbon, and surmounted by a five-pointed star. The circular legend REPÚBLICA DE MOÇAMBIQUE arcs along the upper periphery in raised Latin characters, with the date 1997 positioned in the lower exergue. |
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| Reverse description | A black rhinoceros depicted in right profile, rendered in fine relief standing on a grassy ground line, with a spreading flat-topped acacia tree in the background. The legend WILDLIFE OF AFRICA arcs along the upper periphery in raised Latin lettering, while the denomination 5000 METICAIS is inscribed along the lower border. A small engraver's signature appears in the lower right field. |
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Mozambique's 1990s large-format silver issues were produced during the country's fragile post-civil-war recovery, after the 1992 Rome General Peace Accords ended sixteen years of conflict between Frelimo and Renamo. The 500-gram format places this firmly in the collector bullion market rather than anything approaching circulation — Mozambique's domestic economy at the time was operating largely on aid and reconstruction funding, with the metical itself having been redenominated in 1980 after independence-era inflation.
KM#125 is part of a broader wildlife series issued through the late 1990s targeting the European and Asian collector markets.