Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
20 Meticais
| Issuer | Banco de Moçambique |
|---|---|
| Year | 2006 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents a central intaglio vignette of a white rhinoceros standing in a savanna landscape with hills in the background, rendered in shades of violet and grey against a light-blue guilloche underprint. The denomination numeral 20 appears in large format at lower left and repeated within a dark oval cartouche at upper right, with the legend VINTE METICAIS in bold at lower right. An anti-counterfeiting text legend runs along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
The 2006 series marked Banco de Moçambique's shift toward a modernized, decimalized currency framework following the 2000 redenomination, which replaced the old metical at a rate of 1,000 to one — a practical reset after chronic inflation had rendered low denominations essentially worthless through the 1990s. Giesecke & Devrient, a reliable choice for smaller African central banks lacking domestic printing infrastructure, produced the series from Munich.
The 20 meticais sits at the lower-middle tier of the issue, a denomination that saw genuine everyday use rather than accumulating in savings.