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10 Ouguiya
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de Mauritanie |
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| Year | 1973-2003 |
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| Value | 10 Ouguiya (10 MRO) |
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| Obverse lettering | 19 99 10 OUGUIYA BANQUE CENTRALE DE MAURITANIE |
| Reverse description | The central field bears the denomination '١٠' (10) in Arabic-Indic numerals, surrounded by the Arabic legend of the issuing authority. The circular inscription 'البنك المركزي الموريتاني' (The Central Bank of Mauritania) runs along the periphery, while the Hijri year appears at the base of the design. The composition is enclosed within a plain inner border, presenting a clean and symmetrical layout characteristic of post-independence Mauritanian coinage. |
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Mauritania's post-independence coinage required a clean break from the CFA franc system, which the country abandoned in 1973 upon establishing the ouguiya — one of only two world currencies not decimally subdivided, with five khoums to one ouguiya rather than one hundred subunits. The Banque Centrale de Mauritanie was itself only founded that same year, making this issue part of the original sovereign monetary establishment rather than a later reform coinage.
The thirty-year production run with no major compositional change is notable for a West African issue of this period, most of which saw repeated reformulations driven by metal costs.